Poem Quotes by Jane Hirshfield

I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

— Jane Hirshfield

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I…

— Jane Hirshfield

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence,…

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Jane Hirshfield

Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

— Jane Hirshfield

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part…

— Jane Hirshfield

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move…

— Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

— Jane Hirshfield

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

— Jane Hirshfield

The same words come from each mouth differently.

— Jane Hirshfield

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

— Jane Hirshfield