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Jane Hirshfield quotes: There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion
that does not include within its walls the unknown.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.

As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

Jane Hirshfield quotes: I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.

Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Art can be defined as beauty able to transcend the circumstances of its making.

Art can be defined as beauty able to transcend the circumstances of its making.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.

There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.

Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.[Autumn]

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
[Autumn]

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: The same words come from each mouth differently.

The same words come from each mouth differently.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer - and non-disturbance.

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer - and non-disturbance.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: over 19,000 haiku about Spam - "Spamku" - have to this date been posted online.

over 19,000 haiku about Spam - "Spamku" - have to this date been posted online.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.

Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Desire is the moment before the race is run.

Desire is the moment before the race is run.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Clear moon, a boy afraid of foxes walked home by his lover

Clear moon, a boy afraid of foxes walked home by his lover

Jane Hirshfield quotes: How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: As some strings, untouched,sound when no one is speaking.So it was when love slipped inside us.

As some strings, untouched,
sound when no one is speaking.
So it was when love slipped inside us.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: In a room with many windowssome thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly.

In a room with many windows
some thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely.

Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Something looks back from the trees,and knows me for who I am.

Something looks back from the trees,
and knows me for who I am.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.

What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Hope is the hardest love we carry.

Hope is the hardest love we carry.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: One way poetry connects is across time ... Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

One way poetry connects is across time ... Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Poems ... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,

Poems ... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means? Some

Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means? Some

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Neither a person entirely brokennor one entirely whole can speak.In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Neither a person entirely broken
nor one entirely whole can speak.
In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Hunger that comes and goes turns time into memory.

Hunger that comes and goes turns time into memory.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.

There are openings in our lives
of which we know nothing.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: 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.

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.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.

Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: if you see for yourself, hear for yourself, and enter deeply enough this seeing and hearing, all things will speak with and through you.

if you see for yourself, hear for yourself, and enter deeply enough this seeing and hearing, all things will speak with and through you.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.

One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Zen pretty much comes down to three things everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things
everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition-as making a spark requires two things struck together.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition-as making a spark requires two things struck together.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

Life is short.
But desire, desire is long.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.

Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Jane Hirshfield quotes: Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.