“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingHandsEyeNamesAbilityKnowingColorPleaseEarsPhysicsPainterLandscapeGesturesRhetoric 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 travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come back with me from these travels.But I must trust that I will not treat frivolously the glimpses I've been given into other places and others' lives.” KnowsGivenTreatsExpectedDustGlimpsePollen Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.” KnowsLooksTreeWho I AmKnow Me Book:The lives of the heart Source: The lives of the heart
“When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery.” KnowsWritingMovingGoalMysteryConditionsConceptsUnknowing Author:Jane Hirshfield
“There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.” KnowsOur LivesOpening Author:Jane Hirshfield
