--- title: "1 Shirt Touches Quotes By Jane Kenyon" description: "1 Shirt Touches quotes by Jane Kenyon. Plus more from Jane Kenyon and more Shirt Touches sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4f/jane-kenyon-26365_lucky-shirt_the-shirt-touches-his-neck-and-smooths-o_2027743.png" --- > [“The shirt touches his neck and smooths over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt— down into his pants. Lucky shirt.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/the-shirt-touches-his-neck-and-smooths-over-his-back-it-slides-down/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4f/jane-kenyon-26365_lucky-shirt_the-shirt-touches-his-neck-and-smooths-o_2027743.png) ## More by Jane Kenyon > [“Here You always belonged here. You were theirs, certain as a rock. I’m the one who worries if I fit in with the furniture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/here-you-always-belonged-here-you-were-theirs-certain-as-a-rock-i-m/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/the-soul-s-bliss-and-suffering-are-bound-together/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [“All day the blanket snapped and swelled on the line, roused by a hot spring wind… From there it witnessed the first sparrow, early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/all-day-the-blanket-snapped-and-swelled-on-the-line-roused-by-a-hot/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [“Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down. Let the cricket…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/let-the-light-of-late-afternoon-shine-through-chinks-in-the-barn/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/if-you-want-a-different-life-you-gotta-start-doing-and-learning/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/i-am-the-one-whose-love-overcomes-you-already-with-you-when-you-think/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [“To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to air in the lung let evening come. Let it come, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/to-the-bottle-in-the-ditch-to-the-scoop-in-the-oats-to-air-in-the/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/i-divested-myself-of-despair-and-fear-when-i-came-here-now-there-is/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/everyone-longs-for-love-s-tense-joys-and-red-delights/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/the-poet-s-job-is-to-put-into-words-those-feelings-we-all-have-that/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/let-it-come-as-it-will-and-don-t-be-afraid-god-does-not-leave-us/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [“Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazard from the shelf, but with Nabokov's first sentence I knew it wasn't the thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/reading-aloud-to-my-father-i-chose-the-book-haphazard-from-the-shelf/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [We try a new drug, a new combination of drugs, and suddenly I fall into my life again like a vole picked up by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/we-try-a-new-drug-a-new-combination-of-drugs-and-suddenly-i-fall-into/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/my-ear-is-not-working-my-poetry-ear-i-can-t-write-a-line-that-doesn-t/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) > [If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/if-it-s-darkness-we-re-having-let-it-be-extravagant/) [Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shirt-touches/jane-kenyon/#itemlist", "name": "1 Shirt Touches Quotes By Jane Kenyon", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The shirt touches his neck and smooths over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt— down into his pants. 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