Concept Quote by Latto

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

— Aldous Harding

I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in…

— Roger Caillois

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

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

— James Geary

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our…

— James Richardson

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

— R. Kelly

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it,…

— Anne Carson

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

— Robert Morgan

“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the…

— Aristotle

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles