Allowing Quote by James Geary

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

— Roberto Bolano

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

— George Lakoff

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But…

— Max Black

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

— James Geary

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

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Jane Hirshfield

Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor...…

— R. S. Thomas