All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Quoted by Gilbert K Chesterton
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
Quoted by Robin Morgan
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Quoted by Antisthenes Pinto
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.
Quoted by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
Quoted by Jacob Bronowski
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
Quoted by James Geary
The metaphor is an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
Quoted by Gaston Bachelard
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
Quoted by James Geary
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Quoted by Wallace Stevens
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Quoted by Orson Scott Card
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.
Quoted by Mary Ruefle
Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
Quoted by William Carlos Williams
But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
Quoted by Haruki Murakami
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
Quoted by Rachel Hartman
A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.
Quoted by Scott Adams
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.
Quoted by Fernando Pessoa
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
Quoted by James Geary
A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
Quoted by Matthew Woodring Stover
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
Quoted by Pierre Bourdieu