"How fine is the mesh of death. You……" — Jane Hirshfield
"How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it."
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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 Almost See Quotes
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it.…
— PJ Harvey
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And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...]…
— Alice Walker
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I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much.…
— A. R. Gurney
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There are a lot of people who are successful and have a lot of money, but you can almost see…
— Riff Raff
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You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been…
— Ron Fournier
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The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not…
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won,…
— Jasper Fforde
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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give…
— Vera Nazarian
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I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get…
— Lauren DeStefano
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