Air Quote by Osip Mandelstam

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

— James Geary

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

— Roberto Bolano

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

— Aharon Appelfeld

... 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

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass__our roots…

— John Green

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Seeing metaphors in everything again.”

— Emilie Autumn

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

— Jordan Wolfson

“Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.”

— Rae Armantrout

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright