"as some strings, untouched, sound when no one……" — Jane Hirshfield
"as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us."
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42 Quotes by Jane Hirshfield
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The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
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This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it…
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In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself…
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One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us…
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As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
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Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.
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Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the…
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A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of…
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In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
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How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
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I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both…
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A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings.…
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I…
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick…
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going…
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I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know…
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