Heart/body
Colette uses imagery to describe the difference between the heart and the body, suggesting that the body is harder to impress:
“But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up loving.”
The imagery of language
In the following passage, Colette uses imagery to describe various emotions as being languages, saying:
“I heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too familiar.”
Renee
In the following passage, Colette uses imagery to describe poet Renee, suggesting that her voice is like a melody:
"I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching.”
