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One Quotes by Jane Hirshfield
- The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
- One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
- There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the…
- At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you…
- One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
- as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
- 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…
- Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That…
- Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
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