"If truth is the lure, humans are fishes." — Jane Hirshfield
"If truth is the lure, humans are fishes."
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Jane Hirshfield
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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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What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do?…
— Dave Attell
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or…
— Dave Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny…
— Victoria Beckham
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I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat…
— Victoria Beckham
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of…
— Aneurin Bevan
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I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the…
— Emily Blunt
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I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600…
— Anthony Bourdain
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