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title: "1 Silence Write Quotes By Jane Hirshfield"
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> [I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-require-silence-to-write-the-way-an-apple-tree-requires-winter-to/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

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## More by Jane Hirshfield

> [I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-don-t-have-a-cell-phone-though-for-years-i-ve-kept-saying-soon/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-once-was-asked-to-contribute-to-a-mushroom-poem-anthology-i-didn-t/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/everything-has-two-endings-a-horse-a-piece-of-string-a-phone-call/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/a-certain-amount-of-housekeeping-also-goes-on-in-my-poems-i-wash/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/self-carries-grief-as-a-pack-mule-carries-the-side-bags-being-careful/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/my-job-as-a-human-being-as-well-as-a-writer-is-to-feel-as-thoroughly/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-want-to-preserve-a-certain-unknowing-about-my-own-poems-perhaps/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/habit-laziness-and-fear-conspire-to-keep-us-comfortably-within-the/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/in-order-to-gain-anything-you-must-first-lose-everything/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [The same words come from each mouth differently.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-same-words-come-from-each-mouth-differently/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/metaphors-think-with-the-imagination-and-the-senses-the-hot-chili/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/your-fate-is-to-be-yourself-both-punishment-and-crime/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/near-even-a-candle-the-visible-heat-so-it-is-with-a-person-in-love/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/at-some-point-i-realized-that-you-don-t-get-a-full-human-life-if-you/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/immensity-is-always-there-but-we-so-often-become-numb-to-it-or/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

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