"Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us……" — Jane Hirshfield
"Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar."
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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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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
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All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
— Ken Venturi
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
— Harriet Martineau
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than…
— George Eliot
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own…
— Vincent D'Onofrio
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If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
— Sun Tzu
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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if…
— Herman Melville
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
— Verner Panton
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem…
— Eddie Murphy
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