Top Highlights

• Metaphor is a tool so ordinary that we use it unconsciously and automatically, with
• so little effort that we hardly notice it. It is omnipresent: metaphor suffuses our thoughts, no matter what we are thinking about.
• Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality.
• All this may seem obvious, but there is an important theoretical issue at stake in these examples: metaphor resides in thought, not just in words.