Precise Quote by Jane Hirshfield Download Open image “The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.” — Jane Hirshfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy of Mind Precise
Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Uninterpretation is simply a choice you make after you take on a solid idea—a choice to look beyond, to question, to observe.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. — Tom Robbins 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
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this… — Alvaro Siza Vieira Copy Share Image
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
