"The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in……" — Jane Hirshfield
"The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us."
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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 Alertness Quotes
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with…
— George Matthew Adams
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Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics…
— Pat Riley
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It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers…
— Archibald Rutledge
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When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned,…
— Rajneesh
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Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror…
— Rajneesh
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Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the…
— Rajneesh
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Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are…
— Rajneesh
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities…
— Rajneesh
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The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but…
— Rajneesh
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The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of…
— Rajneesh
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