There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?