Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.