Best Jane Hirshfield Quotes
- So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. All
- One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen. Breath
- Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. Attention
- You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone.… Bear
- Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being. Clarification
- as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us. Inside
- 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… Air
- I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for… Answering
- Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That… Book
- You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life. Begin
- Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. Broken
- How fragile we are, between the few good moments. Few
- Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away. All
- How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it. Almost See
- My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of,… Experience
- Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected… Gathering
- What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making… Already Living