“Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.” LovePersonsHeatVisibleCandle Book:Come, Thief: Poems Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.” WayPersonsSorrowStonesSandBurlap Author:Jane Hirshfield
“In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.” WorldPersonsSelfHelpingBitsExistenceGrowingLateFoolishTinyComicGrowing OldGrowing OlderSelf CenterednessCenteredness 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
“I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.” PersonsHorseHammersCompetentTrainersBiologist Author:Jane Hirshfield
“At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.” PersonsFeelingsRunningPastChoicesGivenLevelsResponseCraftsThemeComprehensionErasers Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.” PersonsWholeSpeakBrokenSorrowFearless Author:Jane Hirshfield
