Metaphor Quote by Rodney Crowell

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

— Brad Paisley

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most…

— Pat Pattison

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I…

— Stephen Dobyns

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

— Morton Feldman

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is…

— Tony Hoagland

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

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

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

— George Lakoff

“The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...”

— Martha Beck