Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

- William P. Young

Author

· Canada

• Believe
• Metaphor

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

- Mary Ruefle

Poet

· USA

• Events
• Metaphor

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

- Mason Cooley

Professor

· USA

• Advantage
• Events
• Metaphor

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

- Max Black

• Metaphor
• Unraveling

…a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

- Max Black

• Metaphor

A man’s whole life / may be a metaphor – but a woman’s lot / is symbol.

- Lorna Dee Cervantes

• Metaphor

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

- Wallace Stevens

Poet

· USA

• Metaphor
• Reality
• Unreal

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

- Gaston Bachelard

Philosopher

· France

• Metaphor