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.
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
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