"Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not……" — Jane Hirshfield

"Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled."

— Jane Hirshfield

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42 Quotes by Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it…
In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself…
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us…
As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.
Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the…
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of…
In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both…
A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings.…

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