Desire Quote by Northrop Frye

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

— George Lakoff

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

— Roberto Bolano

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

— Calvin Niles

“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

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

“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they…

— Chandler Burr

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

— M. H. Abrams

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

— Rodney Crowell

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

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

— James Geary

“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.”

— Charles Simic

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

— OMI