“Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.” ThinkingFeelsRealPassionSunFocusGenerationsFieldsHonorPaperGlassesHeatNew GenerationMagneticMagnifyingMagnifying GlassMagnetic Fields Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.” FeelsLooksPersonsSometimesMomentsCommonOur LivesFieldsChangedDependsWindowBreathsClueBrief Moments Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's large. Step into the ocean or walk on Mount Tamalpais, and that kind of amnesia and self-centeredness isn't possible. Enter the natural world at all, you see existence emerge, ripen, fall and continue, and you can't help but feel more tender towards self and others. That summoning into the large and the shared is what poems exist also to do.” ThinkingWorldFeelsKindSelfHelpingFallNaturalWalksExistenceStepsOceanDeceivingNatural WorldNumbAmnesiaImmensitySelf CenterednessCenterednessSummoning Author:Jane Hirshfield
“"And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.” KnowsFeelsRealSeemsPathPerspectiveClosestAngle Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.” PeopleNeedsFeelsMindSilenceListeningLeapListening To MusicDistracted Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful - but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time.” FeelsImportantArtistGoneChangedOffersFoundationLuxuryLandscapeHelpfulScholar Author:Jane Hirshfield
