“There is more and more I tell no one, strangers nor loves. This slips into the heart without hurry, as if it had never been. And yet, among the trees, something has changed. Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.” SelfFeelingsPoetryPoemThoughtsSecrets Book:The lives of the heart Source: The lives of the heart
“Poetry now, here, is not taken so seriously, or noticed so widely. But, however few who may now look to them, poems still can be felt as needed, felt as one way to give needed name to things that need naming.” NeedsWritingFeelingsPoetryUnderstandingPoemPoems Author:Jane Hirshfield
“The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.” WorldWayMeanRealFeelingsTurnsStuffLosesSimpleCompassionAwarenessGreedTricksUselessAbsurditySpiritedMean SpiritedReal FeelingsMidasUseless Stuff Author:Jane Hirshfield
“At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink. What I've chosen, what's happened unchosen, can't be unmade or redone. Poetry, though, is a door that only continues to open. Even the unchangeable past changes inside a poem. Not the facts, but the feeling, the comprehension.” MomentsFactsFeelingsPastLife IsWrittenHappenedDoorsChosenInkComprehensionUnnoticedUnchangeableIndelible Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life.” HeartArtFeelingsTurnsLanguageKnowingTongueGesturesVocabularyGrammarThoughts And FeelingsImmersionDictionArt Making Author:Jane Hirshfield
“At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.” PersonsFeelingsRunningPastChoicesGivenLevelsResponseCraftsThemeComprehensionErasers Author:Jane Hirshfield
