“Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.”
Source: The lives of the heart
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Famous Jane Hirshfield Quotes
Source: The lives of the heart
“Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.”
“as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”
Source: The lives of the heart
“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
Source: Of Gravity & Angels
“As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.”
Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
“Life is short. But desire, desire is long.”
Source: Of Gravity & Angels
“How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.”
Source: The lives of the heart
Source: The lives of the heart
“If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.”
Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
“Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.”
“At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.”
“Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.”