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Jane Hirshfield Quotes

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays Picture Quote #1

A poem can use anything to talk about anything Picture Quote #1

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am Picture Quote #1

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life Picture Quote #1

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society’s rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom Picture Quote #1

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.[Autumn] Picture Quote #1

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There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March Picture Quote #1

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing Picture Quote #1

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds Picture Quote #1

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable Picture Quote #1

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don’t leap into my mind when I’m distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music Picture Quote #1

I’d say that the middle stanza is closer: that’s the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm Picture Quote #1

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I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves Picture Quote #1

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called ‘shadow work,’ not least because that is no small part of their own way of working Picture Quote #1

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook Picture Quote #1

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another Picture Quote #1

I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different Picture Quote #1

Poems’ deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected Picture Quote #1

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It’s one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one’s own and others’ absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard Picture Quote #1

ChinaWhales followthe whale-roads.Geese, roads of magnetized air.To go great distance,exactitudes matter.Yet how oftenthe heartthat set out for Peruarrives in China,Steering hard.consulting the chartsthe whole journey Picture Quote #1

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn’t know was in you, or in the world Picture Quote #1

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention Picture Quote #1

How fragile we are, between the few good moments Picture Quote #1

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I’ve looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry’s gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside Picture Quote #1

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In the dream life, you don’t deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility Picture Quote #1

I’d say that the middle stanza is closer: that’s the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm Picture Quote #1

I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different Picture Quote #1

I don’t have a cell phone (though for years I’ve kept saying, soon) Picture Quote #1

One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen Picture Quote #1

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria Picture Quote #1

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Justice lacking passion fails, betrays (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) A poem can use anything to talk about anything (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society’s rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.[Autumn] (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don’t leap into my mind when I’m distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I’d say that the middle stanza is closer: that’s the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called ‘shadow work,’ not least because that is no small part of their own way of working (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Poems’ deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) It’s one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one’s own and others’ absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) ChinaWhales followthe whale-roads.Geese, roads of magnetized air.To go great distance,exactitudes matter.Yet how oftenthe heartthat set out for Peruarrives in China,Steering hard.consulting the chartsthe whole journey. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn’t know was in you, or in the world. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) How fragile we are, between the few good moments (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I’ve looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry’s gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) In the dream life, you don’t deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I’d say that the middle stanza is closer: that’s the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) I don’t have a cell phone (though for years I’ve kept saying, soon) (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen. (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria (Jane Hirshfield Quotes)

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