Quote by John Dominic Crossan

“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to…

— Sol Luckman

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Mary Ruefle

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

— Matthew Woodring Stover

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

— 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

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

— Wallace Stevens

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— 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

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

— James Geary

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