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Jane Hirshfield has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
• 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…
• One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we…
• As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
• Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.
• Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is…
• A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life…
• In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
• How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
• I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger…
• A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you…

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