“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
“Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you look with open eyes at your actual life, it's always going to be the kind of long division problem that doesn't work out perfectly evenly. Poems let you accept the multiplicity and complexity of the actual, they let us navigate the unnavigable, insoluble parts of our individual fates and shared existence.” IfsWayGivingLooksKindLongProblemEyeIndividualExistenceKnownAcceptingFateWork OutComplexityDivisionPermissionNavigateMultiplicityUnsureOpen EyesActual Life Author:Jane Hirshfield
“The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.” WayLooksStillsSelfDreamMightUnderstandingSecretHalfHeardSpeechJokesMovedIntimatePoetry IsLeapWakingListening To MusicTruestUnspokenOne You LoveSomeone You Love 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
“In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.” TryingLooksDreamNightHouseVisibility Author:Jane Hirshfield
“A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.” LooksLittlesStudiosIntimacy Author:Jane Hirshfield
