"One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written,……" — Jane Hirshfield
"One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen."
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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 Breath Quotes
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
— Christian Bale
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your…
— Lisa Bonet
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Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below.…
— Elayne Boosler
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It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people…
— Anthony Bourdain
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks…
— Anne Bronte
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of…
— Gisele Bundchen
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They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used…
— Anne Campbell
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
— Stokely Carmichael
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It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying...…
— Charisma Carpenter
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