Amazement Quote by Jane Hirshfield Download Open image “Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.” — Jane Hirshfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amazement Existence Ifs Inspirational Life Love Poetry
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is. — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do,… — Ellen Glasgow 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… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
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
We started this together, Leo. Seems only right you come along. You find us a ride, you're in." "Yes!" Leo pumped his fist. *… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which… — William Tecumseh Vernon Copy Share Image
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His… — George Wigram Copy Share Image
Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
