Craig ArnoldThe heart under your heart is not the one you shareso readily so full of pleasantry & tendernessit is a single blackberry at the heart of a brambleor else some larger fruit heavy the size of a fist
About This Quote
The original quote from "The Heart Under the Heart" is: “The heart under your heart is not the one you shareso readily so full of pleasantry & tendernessit is a single blackberry at the heart of a brambleor else some larger fruit heavy the size of a fist.” The heart is a metaphor for the self, or consciousness, and it's a metaphor because earlier in the poem Robert Frost defines what he means by "heart," saying that the heart "has a name but it no longer matters, / It matters because it has a name." And so it is with each of us, each of our souls. Each small cup contains an entire universe, and yet we are too small to contain all that's in it. In other words, what matters is not any particular thing or event in our lives, but rather how we relate to that experience. And so, while we may have different names for our hearts because we have different experiences, what matters to us is how we relate to that contentment or that frustration, that joy or that sadness.
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