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“Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.” quote by Jane Hirshfield — Download Open image

“Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.”

Jane Hirshfield

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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,…

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A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

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Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

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My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part…

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I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move…

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Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

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In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

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The same words come from each mouth differently.

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Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

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Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

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Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and…

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The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

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We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September…

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It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing…

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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this…

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,…

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What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

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If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of…

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

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Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

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