Metaphor Quote by Neil Postman

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, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

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

— George Lakoff

... 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

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

— Marshall McLuhan

“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of…

— Mark Johnson

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people…

— George Lakoff