"Poetry is a release of something previously unknown……" — Jane Hirshfield
"Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable."
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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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