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Into Quotes by Jane Hirshfield
- This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
- In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever…
- 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…
- I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a…
- When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or…
- 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…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong