Robert Hass Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

  Robert Hass

  Ideas, Stories, Metaphor

• There isn't a river or creek in the country - or there are very few - that doesn't have some small group of people working on a restoration or creek cleanup project. Let me give you one example that's a great metaphor: In Washington, D.C., there is a group called the Anacostia Watershed Society. Two rivers converge and define Washington - one which everybody knows about, the Potomac, and the Anacostia, which they don't. The Anacostia is one of the most polluted urban rivers in the country.

  Robert Hass

  Country, Two, Rivers

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

• It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.

  Robert Hass

  Rivers, Black, Maps

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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