Poems Quotes by Jane Hirshfield

10 Poems quotes by Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield’s work often feels like a quiet walk through nature’s details, inviting mindfulness. This brief array showcases her steady, contemplative tone, perfect for readers who appreciate measured, thoughtful verse.

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Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance,…

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The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with…

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Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw…

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Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own…

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I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at…

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Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with…

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Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.…

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At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an…

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Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence…

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Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the…

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

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The same words come from each mouth differently.

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

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

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Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

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At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that…

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Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's…

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