"Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece……" — Jane Hirshfield
"Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing."
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42 Quotes by Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield has 42 quotes on this site.
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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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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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