The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.