Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
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Metaphor is embodied in language.
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
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