Robert Frost Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

  Robert Frost

  Safe, World, Metaphor

• An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

  Robert Frost

  Ideas, Association, Height

• Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Education by Poetry". Robert Frost's speech at Amherst College in Massachusetts, www.en.utexas.edu. February 1931.

• If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

  Robert Frost

  Ideas, Association, Height

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