Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.