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There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown. — Jane Hirshfield
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
— Jane Hirshfield
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.
— Jane Hirshfield
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.
— Jane Hirshfield
As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.
— Jane Hirshfield
The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.[Autumn] — Jane Hirshfield
Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.
— Jane Hirshfield
There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.
— Jane Hirshfield
How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.
— Jane Hirshfield
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[A]rt can't ever be programmatic ... it needs on the contrary to be complicating, subtle, questioning, doubtful and doubting.
— Tony Leuzzi
Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
The same words come from each mouth differently.
— Jane Hirshfield
In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything
— Jane Hirshfield
Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer - and non-disturbance.
— Jane Hirshfield
The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.
— Jane Hirshfield
In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.
— Jane Hirshfield
I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").
— Jane Hirshfield
Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.
— Jane Hirshfield
If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.
— Jane Hirshfield
Desire is the moment before the race is run.
— Jane Hirshfield
How fragile we are, between the few good moments.
— Jane Hirshfield
Clear moon, a boy afraid of foxes walked home by his lover
— Jane Hirshfield
How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
— Jane Hirshfield
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
— Jane Hirshfield
Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.
— Jane Hirshfield
A poem can use anything to talk about anything.
— Jane Hirshfield
As some strings, untouched,sound when no one is speaking.
So it was when love slipped inside us. — Jane Hirshfield
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
— Jane Hirshfield
Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely.
— Jane Hirshfield
Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.
— Jane Hirshfield
Something looks back from the trees,and knows me for who I am. — Jane Hirshfield
What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.
— Jane Hirshfield
Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.
— Jane Hirshfield
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.
— Jane Hirshfield
Hope is the hardest love we carry.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
Poems ... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,
— Jane Hirshfield
Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means? Some
— Jane Hirshfield
Neither a person entirely brokennor one entirely whole can speak.
In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. — Jane Hirshfield
An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.
— Jane Hirshfield
Hunger that comes and goes turns time into memory.
— Jane Hirshfield
There are openings in our livesof which we know nothing. — Jane Hirshfield
Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.
— Jane Hirshfield
The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
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
Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.
— Jane Hirshfield
I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.
— Jane Hirshfield
Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
— Jane Hirshfield
The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
— Jane Hirshfield
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
So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.
— Jane Hirshfield
One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
— Jane Hirshfield
Zen pretty much comes down to three things everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. — Jane Hirshfield
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
Life is short.But desire, desire is long. — Jane Hirshfield
Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.
— Jane Hirshfield
Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.
— Jane Hirshfield
