"This garden is no metaphor - more a……" — Jane Hirshfield
"This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can."
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42 Quotes by Jane Hirshfield
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- The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
- In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself…
- One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us…
- As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
- Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.
- Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the…
- A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of…
- In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
- How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
- I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both…
- A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings.…
- When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an…
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