Quotes About Metaphor

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

When a human's tears dry up forever, they transform into a monster

Will it be salt or late light that it melts like?

When the dead person cries, it is a sign that he is on the road to get well,' said the Crow solemnly.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

No Brasil não há outono mas as folhas caem - In Brazil there is no autumn but the leaves fall

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

An oracle must cross the moat of logic and reach the inner poet that resides, perhaps repressed but nonetheless alive, within all of us. The I Ching helps us tune into our feeling consciousness through imagery and metaphor, and this, we find, is the path of clarity, of both strength and tolerance, of gentle humor, and of love.

your head is flowers, your body the body of a deer, pierced

You're an onion and Karen's a Maraschino cherry and I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed.

The English word psyche, meaning "soul" or "mind," comes from the Greek word psyche, meaning butterfly.

You picture a garden gone to seed: moss growing on the surface of our spleens, vines squeezing our kidneys. Tiny mushrooms spreading across the linings of our intestines.

If wishes were horses mine would be glue -

Someone's summered in my stomach, Someone's fallen through my legs, To make an infant omelet, Simply scramble sperm and eggs.

metaphor be with you!—

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created.

Aristotle, on the other hand, saw poetry as having a positive value: "It is a great thing, indeed, to make proper use of the poetic forms, . . . But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor" (Poetics 1459a); "ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh" (Rhetoric 1410b).

The heart of metaphor is inference. Conceptual metaphor allows inferences in sensory-motor domains (e.g., domains of space and objects) to be used to draw inferences about other domains (e.g., domains of subjective judgment, with concepts like intimacy, emotions, justice, and so on). Because we reason in terms of metaphor, the metaphors we use determine a great deal about how we live our lives.

We shall argue that, on the contrary, human thought processes are largely metaphorical. This is what we mean when we say that the human conceptual system is metaphorically structured and defined. Metaphors as linguistic expressions are possible precisely because there are metaphors in a person's conceptual system.