“Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.”

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

“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.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

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

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown,But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown.And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live,And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give.Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend,But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end."God's Garden”