Almost Quote by James Geary

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Roberto Bolano

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

— James Geary

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

— George Lakoff

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

— Mary Ruefle

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

— James Geary

“Metaphorical flavor doesn’t influence reality,” said the expendable.”

— Orson Scott Card

... 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

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

— Edward Gorey