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Inspirational Quotes by Jane Hirshfield
- One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
- A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little…
- In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
- How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
- Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving
- Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
- Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.
- Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped—what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,
- One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
- Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
- as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
- You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
- How fragile we are, between the few good moments.
- Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.
- How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento