Always Quote by Anne Carson

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

— James Geary

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

I was in love with metaphors and similes and alliteration, just the play on the words. I was fascinated with that concept.

— Latto

I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in…

— Roger Caillois

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the…

— Aristotle

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

— R. Kelly

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is…

— Tony Hoagland

“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an…

— Victor Hugo

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our…

— James Richardson

“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.”

— Helen Keller

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I…

— Stephen Dobyns