Alive Quote by Gregory Bateson

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

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

— George Lakoff

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves…

— James Geary

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe…

— Nick Laird

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

— Edward Gorey

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

— Roberto Bolano

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary