“It is by metaphor that language grows.”
Book I, Chapter 2, p. 49
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 120
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“Metaphor is the language of immanence; metonymy of transcendence.”
Northrop Frye
(1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
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(1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
quoted in McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed by W. Terrence Gordon, 2010, p. 167
1980s
Kevin Kline
(1947) American actor
On his initial reaction, as a student, to the works of Shakespeare, The Washington University Record http://record.wustl.edu/archive/1996/01-25-96/1834.html (25 January 1996)
Octavio Paz
(1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Source: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 4
Context: Since movement is a metaphor for change, the best thing will be to say: nonchange is (always) change. It would appear that I have finally arrived at the desired disequilibrium. Nonetheless, change is not the primordial, original word that I am searching for: it is a form of becoming. When becoming is substituted for change, the relation between the two terms is altered, so that I am obliged to replace nonchange by permanence, which is a metaphor for fixity, as becoming is for coming-to-be, which in turn is a metaphor for time in all its ceaseless transformations…. There is no beginning, no original word: each one is a metaphor for another word which is a metaphor for yet another, and so on. All of them are translations of translations. A transparency in which the obverse is the reverse: fixity is always momentary.
I begin all over again: if it does not make sense to say that fixity is always momentary, the same may not be true if I say that it never is.
“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”
Richard Bach
(1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
David Crystal
(1941) British linguist and writer
Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 292
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q="all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry"&pg=PA110#v=onepage"
The Defendant (1901)
Yuzuru Hanyu
(1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Other quotes, 2019
Source: Interview after the freeskate at Skate Canada 2019, as transcribed by the International Skating Union, published on 28 October 2019 on their official YouTube-Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2guVNCyGL1M.
“The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.”
Eugene V. Debs
(1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"Revolution" in New York Worker (27 April 1907) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1907/revolution.htm