“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
“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
“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.” WorldArtStillsSelfMomentsFormAbilityGriefKnowingPossibilityColorEvolutionShadowMeetingsSomedaySimplestLiberating Author:Jane Hirshfield
“One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.” MomentsHappensTakenWrittenBreathsAnything Can Happen Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.” MenWayFirstsMayLittlesStillsMomentsMightMovingLyingThreeSunForeverFourTreeLove YouSkinsFruitKneesHeatBentSweetnessRipeLove You Forever Author:Jane Hirshfield
“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.” MomentsFragileGood Moments Book:Come, Thief: Poems Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.” MomentsLife IsWrittenInkUnnoticedIndelible Author:Jane Hirshfield
