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Language is memory and metaphor.
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Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
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Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
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Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
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Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
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... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.
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You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.
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No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.
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Good metaphors are "generative."13 The psychologist Donald Schon introduced this term to describe metaphors that generate "new perceptions, explanations, and inventions." Many
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Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out metaphor acts as a shortcut to meaning.
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We're trapped in linguistic constructs ... all that is is metaphor.
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To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.
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Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life.
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A candle is like a small sun, but the sun is like a large candle; examined closely, language turns out to operate through the lateral associations of metaphor, rather than through the vertical identifications of naming.
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I mistook you for a metaphor.
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All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.
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Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.
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Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name.
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But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.
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Know a man by his metaphors.
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Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.
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Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing ... metaphors support lyrics like bones.
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Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
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Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
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Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things. However, what is a similarity? My Juliet is the sun: in what sense? A
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ...
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The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...
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I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
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Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,
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One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. - TWYLA THARP
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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.
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I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.
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An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.
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I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.
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Man be my metaphor',
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The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.
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A metaphor cannot be paraphrased
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Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
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Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.
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I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.
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A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man
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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
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All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.
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When we are feeling at a loss in a poem, metaphor comes to the rescue. Metaphor is instructive, tactical, and interactive; it succeeds when its audience sees it as both strange and true. We need metaphor to make the error that allows us to reach beyond ourselves.
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Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
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Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.
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In most cases I don't even know the metaphors lay waiting to be printed off my retina.
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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
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The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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The dictionary contains no metaphors.
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The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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Science is all metaphor.
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.
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A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.
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Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
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I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
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I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.
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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
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This book originally aimed at pressing a useful metaphor into the service of elucidating a troubled world; a world
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You live for pretentious metaphors.
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The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.
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Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'
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Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong.
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In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
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It is by metaphor that language grows.
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Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
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It's a mind, it works by metaphor.
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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?
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That one should have to talk about the mind in metaphors is unfortunate, but inevitable.
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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
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I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
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Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
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Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.
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But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
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Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ...
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When language starts transcending materialism, one begins to speak of analogies instead of symbols.
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Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.
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You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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I had hoped for a pinch of metaphor.
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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There are a thousand ways to look at it ... We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors ... But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters ... The metaphors have implications and imperfections.
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The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
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Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.
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Words are tools of imagery in motion,