“The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.” MindHeartOilHeart And MindLit Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.” WantMindHeartAsksSimplePagesUnderstoodComplexesSurfaceComplexityHeart And MindUnspoken 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
“How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.” HeartHinges Book:The lives of the heart Source: The lives of the heart
“I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.” WorldWritingHumansHeartDoeIdeasStoriesSpeakEmotionExistenceMysteryCrossesProfoundSentencesThreshold Author:Jane Hirshfield
“A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.” IfsHumansHeartCultureHuman BeingsTreeRootsHuman HeartTree Of Life Author:Jane Hirshfield
