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Jane Hirshfield Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Art keeps its newness because it’s at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to hold on to. It’s more chemical reaction, one you have to re-create each time, than a substance. Art’s discoveries are also, almost always, counter to ordinary truths Picture Quote #1

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas’s simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them Picture Quote #1

What lives in words is what words were needed to learn Picture Quote #1

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Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind Picture Quote #1

Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins Picture Quote #1

The same words come from each mouth differently Picture Quote #1

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar Picture Quote #1

Poetry’s work is the clarification and magnification of being Picture Quote #1

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it Picture Quote #1

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As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it Picture Quote #1

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble Picture Quote #1

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge Picture Quote #1

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes Picture Quote #1

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise Picture Quote #1

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement Picture Quote #1

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Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay Picture Quote #1

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime Picture Quote #1

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love Picture Quote #1

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first Picture Quote #1

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it Picture Quote #1

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity Picture Quote #1

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The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness Picture Quote #1

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow Picture Quote #1

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It’s like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight Picture Quote #1

As some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us Picture Quote #1

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life Picture Quote #1

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble Picture Quote #1

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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 (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Art keeps its newness because it’s at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to hold on to. It’s more chemical reaction, one you have to re-create each time, than a substance. Art’s discoveries are also, almost always, counter to ordinary truths (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas’s simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) 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 (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) What lives in words is what words were needed to learn (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) The same words come from each mouth differently (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Poetry’s work is the clarification and magnification of being (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) How silently the heart pivots on its hinge (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) If truth is the lure, humans are fishes (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) The untranslatable thought must be the most precise (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It’s like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) As some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble (Jane Hirshfield Quotes)

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