The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Metaphor is embodied in language.
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.