Development Quote by Edward Hirsch

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

— Marshall McLuhan

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

— Arthur Dove

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

— James Geary

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Roberto Bolano

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume…

— Umberto Eco

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff