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# Jane Hirshfield

(1953)   Linguist   United States

 **156** quotes in **806** categories

A kitchen sink can become a poem’s workshop, as Hirshfield writes about washing dishes and patching carpets while tending to grief that rides like a pack mule. She also mentions the value of not knowing, keeping poetry fresh and inviting. She sees habit, laziness, and fear as forces that keep us in familiar comfort zones.

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Jane Hirshfield is a linguist from the United States.

## Quick Facts About Jane Hirshfield

Born February 24, 1953

Nationality United States

Profession Linguist

Notable works The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

## About Jane Hirshfield

In 2019 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include award-winning poetry collections, essay collections, and edited or co-translated volumes of historic writers. Her poems have appeared in newspapers and literary journals and have been translated into more than fifteen languages.

## Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets

##  Quotes by 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/)

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> [The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-untranslatable-thought-must-be-the-most-precise/)

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[Language](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/)

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> [Life is short. But desire, desire is long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/life-is-short-but-desire-desire-is-long/)

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[Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/)

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> [In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/in-the-dictionary-of-cat-mercy-is-missing/)

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[Cat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cat/)

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> [Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/poetry-s-work-is-the-clarification-and-magnification-of-being/)

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> [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/)

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[Candle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/candle/)

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> [Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/words-are-not-the-end-of-thought-they-are-where-it-begins/)

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> [There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/there-are-openings-in-our-lives-of-which-we-know-nothing/)

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[Funny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funny/)

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> [At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/at-some-unnoticed-moment-i-began-to-understand-that-a-life-is-written/)

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> [as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/as-some-strings-untouched-sound-when-no-one-is-speaking-so-it-was/)

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[Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/)

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> [Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped—what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/poems-are-perfume-bottles-momentarily-unstopped-what-they-release-is/)

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> [Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/passion-does-not-make-careful-arguments-it-declares-itself-and-that/)

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[Argument](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/argument/)

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> [Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/neither-a-person-entirely-broken-nor-one-entirely-whole-can-speak-in/)

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> [What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/what-we-want-from-art-is-whatever-is-missing-from-the-lives-we-are/)

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> [How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/how-sad-they-are-the-promises-we-never-return-to-they-stay-in-our/)

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> [One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/one-breath-taken-completely-one-poem-fully-written-fully-read-in-such/)

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[Anything can happen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anything-can-happen/)

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> [The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-first-poem-in-the-beauty-holds-a-woman-in-portugal-in-a/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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

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> [And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/and-when-two-people-have-loved-each-other-see-how-it-is-like-a-scar/)

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> [“ The Cloudy Vase Past time, I threw the flowers out, washed out the cloudy vase. How easily the old clearness leapt,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-cloudy-vase-past-time-i-threw-the-flowers-out-washed-out-the/)

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[Flower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flower/)

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> [A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/a-poem-s-essential-discovery-can-happen-at-a-single-sitting-the/)

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> [When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/when-i-write-i-don-t-know-what-is-going-to-emerge-i-begin-in-a/)

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> [The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-trick-though-is-to-not-lose-compassion-to-not-allow-the-sense-of/)

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[Absurdity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absurdity/)

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> ["And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/and-seems-to-me-closest-and-nods-toward-the-real-and-and-is-the-path/)

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> [“Jasmine "Almost the twenty-first century" -- how quickly the thought will grow dated, even quaint. Our hopes, our future, will pass like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/jasmine-almost-the-twenty-first-century-how-quickly-the-thought-will/)

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[Jasmine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jasmine/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/hyesims-poems-transformative-as-walking-high-granite-mountains-by/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-require-silence-to-write-the-way-an-apple-tree-requires-winter-to/)

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> [Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/creativity-itself-is-a-joyous-unlatching-the-act-of-creative/)

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> [The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-secret-of-understanding-poetry-is-to-hear-poetry-s-words-as-what/)

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[Dream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dream/)

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> [I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-thought-i-would-love-you-forever-and-a-little-i-may-in-the-way-i/)

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> [“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/all-writers-recognize-this-surge-of-striking-in-its-energies-the/)

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[Creativity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creativity/)

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> [“ Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/each-moment-a-white-bull-steps-shining-into-the-world-if-the-gods/)

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[Gift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gift/)

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> [“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/it-is-of-course-we-who-house-poems-as-much-as-their-words-and-we/)

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[Poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/)

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> [“Standing Deer As the house of a person in age sometimes grows cluttered with what is too loved or too heavy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/standing-deer-as-the-house-of-a-person-in-age-sometimes-grows/)

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[Beloved](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beloved/)

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> [“ Perishable, It Said Perishable, it said on the plastic container, And below, in different ink, The date to be used by,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/perishable-it-said-perishable-it-said-on-the-plastic-container-and/)

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> [“ When Your Life Looks Back, When your life looks back-- As it will, at itself, at you--what will it say? Inch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/when-your-life-looks-back-when-your-life-looks-back-as-it-will-at/)

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[Face to face](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/face-to-face/)

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> [“The first intimation of a new romance for a woman of the court was the arrival at her door of a messenger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-first-intimation-of-a-new-romance-for-a-woman-of-the-court-was/)

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[Poem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poem/)

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> [“Some stories last many centuries, others only a moment. All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass, grow distant and more beautiful with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/some-stories-last-many-centuries-others-only-a-moment-all-alter-over/)

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[Palm trees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/palm-trees/)

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> [If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/if-truth-is-the-lure-humans-are-fishes/)

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## Jane Hirshfield by topic

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                        "text": "\"And\" seems to me closest. \"And\" nods toward the real. And \"and\" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.",
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                        "text": "“Jasmine \"Almost the twenty-first century\" -- how quickly the thought will grow dated, even quaint. Our hopes, our future, will pass like the hopes and futures of others. And all our anxieties and terrors, nights of sleeplessness, griefs, will appear then as they truly are -- Stumbling, delirious bees in the tea scent of jasmine.”",
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                        "text": "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 think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting, after going to a class offered at my local library.",
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                        "text": "Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.",
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                        "text": "Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think \"is\" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.",
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                        "text": "The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.",
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                        "text": "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 a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.",
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                        "text": "“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage through the imaginal, musical, world-foraging and word-forging mind. This altered vision is the secret happiness of poems, of poets. It is as if the poem encounters the world and finds in it a hidden language, a Braille unreadable except when raised by the awakened imaginative mind.”",
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                        "text": "“ Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature, accept the gift as if it were one you had chosen. Say the accustomed prayers, oil the hooves well, caress the small ears with praise. Have the new halter of woven silver embedded with jewels. Spare no expense, pay what is asked, when a gift arrives from the sea. Treat it as you yourself would be treated, brought speechless and naked into the court of a king. And when the request finally comes, do not hesitate even an instant---- stroke the white throat, the heavy trembling dewlaps you'd come to believe were yours, and plunge in the knife. Not once did you enter the pasture without pause, without yourself trembling, that you came to love it, that was the gift. Let the envious gods take back what they can.”",
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                        "text": "“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self. Having read it, we are not who we were the moment before… Art lives in what it awakens in us... Through a good poem's eyes we see the world liberated from what we would have it do. Existence does not guarantee us destination, nor trust, nor equity, nor one moment beyond this instant's almost weightless duration. It is a triteness to say that the only thing to be counted upon is that what you count on will not be what comes. Utilitarian truths evaporate: we die. Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.”",
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                        "text": "“Standing Deer As the house of a person in age sometimes grows cluttered with what is too loved or too heavy to part with, the heart may grow cluttered. And still the house will be emptied, and still the heart. As the thoughts of a person in age sometimes grow sparer, like the great cleanness come into a room, the soul may grow sparer; one sparrow song carves it completely. And still the room is full, and still the heart. Empty and filled, like the curling half-light of morning, in which everything is still possible and so why not. Filled and empty, like the curling half-light of evening, in which everything now is finished and so why not. Beloved, what can be, what was, will be taken from us. I have disappointed. I am sorry. I knew no better. A root seeks water. Tenderness only breaks open the earth. This morning, out the window, the deer stood like a blessing, then vanished.”",
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                        "text": "“ Perishable, It Said Perishable, it said on the plastic container, And below, in different ink, The date to be used by, the last teaspoon consumed. I found myself looking; Now at the back of each hand, Now inside the knees, Now turning over each foot to look at the sole. Then at the leaves of the young tomato plants, Then at the arguing jays. Under the wooden table and lifted stones, looking. Coffee cups, olives, cheeses, Hunger, sorrow, fears- These too would certainly vanish, without knowing when. How suddenly then The strange happiness took me, Like a man with strong hands and strong mouth, Inside that hour with its perishing perfumes and clashings.”",
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                        "text": "“ When Your Life Looks Back, When your life looks back-- As it will, at itself, at you--what will it say? Inch of colored ribbon cut from the spool. Flame curl, blue-consuming the log it flares from. Bay leaf. Oak leaf. Cricket. One among many. Your life will carry you as it did always, With ten fingers and both palms, With horizontal ribs and upright spine, With its filling and emptying heart, That wanted only your own heart, emptying, filled, in return. You gave it. What else could do? Immersed in air or in water. Immersed in hunger or anger. Curious even when bored. Longing even when running away. \"What will happen next?\"-- the question hinged in your knees, your ankles, in the in-breaths even of weeping. Strongest of magnets, the future impartial drew you in. Whatever direction you turned toward was face to face. No back of the world existed, No unseen corner, no test. No other earth to prepare for. This, your life had said, its only pronoun. Here, your life had said, its only house. Let, your life had said, its only order. And did you have a choice in this? You did-- Sleeping and waking, the horses around you, the mountains around you, The buildings with their tall, hydraulic shafts. Those of your own kind around you-- A few times, you stood on your head. A few times, you chose not to be frightened. A few times, you held another beyond any measure. A few times, you found yourself held beyond any measure. Mortal, your life will say, As if tasting something delicious, as if in envy. Your immortal life will say this, as it is leaving.”",
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                        "text": "“The first intimation of a new romance for a woman of the court was the arrival at her door of a messenger bearing a five-line poem in an unfamiliar hand. If the woman found the poem sufficiently intriguing, the paper it was written on suitable for its contents and mood, and the calligraphy acceptably graceful, her encouraging reply—itself in the form of a poem—would set in motion a clandestine, late-night visit from her suitor. The first night together was, according to established etiquette, sleepless; lovemaking and talk were expected to continue without pause until the man, protesting the night’s brevity, departed in the first light of the predawn. Even then he was not free to turn his thoughts to the day’s official duties: a morning-after poem had to be written and sent off by means of an ever-present messenger page, who would return with the woman’s reply. Only after this exchange had been completed could the night’s success be fully judged by whether the poems were equally ardent and accomplished, referring in image and nuance to the themes of the night just passed. Subsequent visits were made on the same clandestine basis and under the same circumstances, until the relationship was either made official by a private ceremony of marriage or ended. Once she had given her heart, a woman was left to await her lover’s letters and appearances at her door at nightfall. Should he fail to arrive, there might be many explanations—the darkness of the night, inclement weather, inauspicious omens preventing travel, or other interests. Many sleepless nights were spent in hope and speculation, and, as evidenced by the poems in this book, in poetic activity. Throughout the course of a relationship, the exchange of poems served to reassure, remind, rekindle or cool interest, and, in general, to keep the other person aware of a lover’s state of mind. At the same time, poetry was a means of expressing solely for oneself the uncertainties, hopes, and doubts which inevitably accompanied such a system of courtship, as well as a way of exploring other personal concerns.”",
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                        "text": "“Some stories last many centuries, others only a moment. All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass, grow distant and more beautiful with salt. Yet even today, to look at a tree and ask the story Who are you? is to be transformed. There is a stage in us where each being, each thing, is a mirror. Then the bees of self pour from the hive-door, ravenous to enter the sweetness of flowering nettles and thistle. Next comes the ringing a stone or violin or empty bucket gives off -- the immeasurable's continuous singing, before it goes back into story and feeling. In Borneo, there are palm trees that walk on their high roots. Slowly, with effort, they lift one leg then another. I would like to join that stilted transmigration, to feel my own skin vertical as theirs: an ant-road, a highway for beetles. I would like not minding, whatever travels my heart. To follow it all the way into leaf-form, bark-furl, root-touch, and then keep walking, unimaginably further.”",
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