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# Jane Hirshfield

(1953)   Linguist   United States

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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 · Page 4

> [The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-nourishment-of-cezanne-s-awkward-apples-is-in-the-tenderness-and/)

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> [An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/an-ordinary-hole-beside-a-path-through-the-woods-might-begin-to-open/)

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[Altered](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/altered/)

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> [It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/it-s-one-of-the-saving-graces-in-a-life-to-be-able-to-perceive-one-s/)

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[Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/)

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> [Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/poetry-is-a-release-of-something-previously-unknown-into-the-visible/)

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[Gathering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gathering/)

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> [There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/there-is-a-door-it-opens-then-it-is-closed-but-a-slip-of-light-stays/)

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[Door](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/door/)

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> [I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-travel-as-much-as-i-do-it-isn-t-the-life-i-expected-i-don-t-know/)

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[Dust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/)

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> [Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/each-poet-probably-has-his-or-her-own-cupboard-of-magnets-for-some-it/)

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> [I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-want-to-understand-the-piers-of-language-and-music-and/)

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[Building](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/building/)

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> [“The moon and sun are travelers of a hundred generations. The years, coming and going, are wanderers too. Spending a lifetime adrift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-moon-and-sun-are-travelers-of-a-hundred-generations-the-years/)

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[Generations](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/generations/)

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> [“One useful way to approach a haiku is to understand each of its parts as pointing toward both world and self. Read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/one-useful-way-to-approach-a-haiku-is-to-understand-each-of-its-parts/)

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[Haiku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/haiku/)

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> [Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/houses-are-fundamental-metaphors-for-self-world-permeability/)

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[Fundamentals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fundamentals/)

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> [A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/a-tree-lives-on-its-roots-if-you-change-the-root-you-change-the-tree/)

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[Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/)

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> [One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/one-reason-to-write-a-poem-is-to-flush-from-the-deep-thickets-of-the/)

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> [“The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-desire-of-monks-and-mystics-is-not-unlike-that-of-artists-to-2/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/poems-allow-us-not-only-to-bear-the-tally-and-toll-of-our-transience/)

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[Abundance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abundance/)

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> [I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-ve-gone-to-yaddo-many-times-i-ve-worked-at-the-rockefeller/)

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> [Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/sam-hamill-is-a-writer-unabashedly-taking-his-place-within-the/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/in-the-dream-life-you-don-t-deliberately-set-out-to-dream-about-a/)

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

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> [“To feel sabi is to feel keenly one’s own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/to-feel-sabi-is-to-feel-keenly-one-s-own-sharp-and-particular/)

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[Feel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feel/)

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> [One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/one-recurring-dream-many-others-have-also-you-go-into-a-familiar/)

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[Doors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doors/)

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> [In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/in-my-poems-though-as-you-say-the-comic-arrived-fairly-late-this/)

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[Bits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bits/)

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> [Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/every-other-year-or-so-i-go-to-one-of-those-great-generous-places-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/poems-deep-work-is-a-matter-of-language-but-also-a-matter-of-life-one/)

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[Awareness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awareness/)

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> [“ China Whales follow the whale-roads. Geese, roads of magnetized air. To go great distance, exactitudes matter. Yet how often the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/china-whales-follow-the-whale-roads-geese-roads-of-magnetized-air-to/)

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> [History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/history-mythology-and-folktales-are-filled-with-stories-of-people/)

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[Complete freedom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/complete-freedom/)

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> [Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/art-making-is-learned-by-immersion-you-take-in-vocabularies-of/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“The heart's actions are neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-heart-s-actions-are-neither-the-sentence-nor-its-reprieve-salt/)

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[Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bird/)

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> [The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-ability-to-name-poetry-s-gestures-and-rhetorics-isn-t-required-to/)

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[Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/at-another-level-though-poems-can-craft-an-eraser-we-can-t-revise-the/)

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[Choice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choice/)

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> [Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/go-back-to-the-october-palace-which-came-out-in-1994-and-there-are/)

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[Archetype](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/archetype/)

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> [So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/so-much-of-our-lives-depends-on-accidents-of-birth-time-and-geography/)

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> [“The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-world-asks-as-it-asks-daily-and-what-can-you-make-can-you-do-to/)

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[Another year](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-year/)

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> [“And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades, what will she say? Will she look at me with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/and-that-other-self-who-watches-me-from-the-distance-of-decades-what/)

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[Choices](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/choices/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-heft-of-a-life-in-the-hands-grows-both-lighter-and-weightier-over/)

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[Firsts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/firsts/)

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> [Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/tree-it-is-foolish-to-let-a-young-redwood-grow-next-to-a-house-even/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-writing-of-an-assay-type-poem-or-a-poem-investigating-perspective/)

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[Desperation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desperation/)

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## Jane Hirshfield by topic

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