Approach Quote by Rachel Hartman

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

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

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Roberto Bolano

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

— George Lakoff

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

“But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.”

— Haruki Murakamirakami

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

“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's hard for…

— Leslie Jamison

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

— Ray Bradbury

Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in…

— Laura Riding