Metaphor Quotes
Before I even started this website I was putting together
a collection of metaphor quotes. Here are some of my favorites.
I have included a few about language in general, because they
suggest some things about metaphors when seen in this context.
My Metaphor Quotes
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor
to let you perceive it. - Robert Stetson
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
- Aristotle
Metaphor gives light and strength to description. - John
Brent
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. - Thomas
Carlyle
A world ends when its metaphor has died. - Archibald MacLeish
The difference between the right word and the almost right
word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities.
Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation
which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels
of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. - Joseph Campbell
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? -
Chuck Palahniuk
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good
metaphor. - Robert Frost
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. - G.
K. Chesterton
Science is all metaphor. - Timothy Leary
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep
an eye on. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Work is love made visible. - Kahlil Gibran
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom
bombs. - Pearl Strachan
Metaphors, or analogies, are not merely convenient economies
for expressing our knowledge; rather, they are our knowledge
and understanding of the particular phenomena in question. —
M. Johnson, The Body in the Mind
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous.
Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give
birth to love. - Milan Kundera (in "The Unbearable Lightness
of Being")
A metaphor is like a simile. - Steve Gillman
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