Metaphor Quotes

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus.

I think the song itself, ‘Smoke and Fire,’ is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.