Quote by Jane Hirshfield Download Open image ““Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.”” — Jane Hirshfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Let he who wishes to find himself cease to seek for masters. Clear your mind from all the dogmas and opinions of others.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what… — Lao-Tzu Copy Share Image
“The sons of the masters were roaming the world, looking for arms to hold them. And the arms that might have held them--could not… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.” ~ Basho” — Benjamin Riggs Copy Share Image
“You talk far too much...Procure for me at once a chariot or a flying carpet or a well-trained dragon, or whatever is usual for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.” — von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Copy Share Image
“reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.” — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes of the day, covered with mud and mire, and I put on my regal and courtly garments; and decently reclothed, I enter the ancient courts of ancient men, where, received by them lovingly, I feed on the food… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share
“Never in former days would any high lord of this land have constrained a man to abandon such a quest as mine. My duty… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.” — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon"). — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share
Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
