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Jane Hirshfield Quotes

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind’s knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed Picture Quote #1

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider Picture Quote #1

In the dream life you don’t deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility Picture Quote #1

One way poetry connects is across time... Some echo of a writer’s physical experience comes into us when we read her poem Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool Picture Quote #1

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being Picture Quote #1

When I write, I don’t know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery Picture Quote #1

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind Picture Quote #1

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown Picture Quote #1

Poetry’s work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving Picture Quote #1

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At some point I realized that you don’t get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens Picture Quote #1

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand Picture Quote #1

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink Picture Quote #1

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own Picture Quote #1

Poems... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped-what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again Picture Quote #1

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance Picture Quote #1

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Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy Picture Quote #1

Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room Picture Quote #1

And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend Picture Quote #1

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The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind’s knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) In the dream life you don’t deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility (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 (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 (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 (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) 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 write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) When I write, I don’t know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown (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 (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) At some point I realized that you don’t get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink (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 (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Poems... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped-what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room (Jane Hirshfield Quotes) And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend (Jane Hirshfield Quotes)

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