Because Quote by James Geary

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

— James Geary

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

— Jordan Wolfson

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

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

— Mary Ruefle

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

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

— George Lakoff

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

— James Geary

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

— OMI

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

— Roberto Bolano