Quotes by Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield

“And” seems to me closest. “And” nods toward the real. And “and” is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.

Path

Perspective

Real

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

Dishes

Goes On

Patches

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

Sorrow

Stones

Way

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A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

Use

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A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry’s language carries what lives outside language. It’s as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Secret

Simple

Water

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A poem’s essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

Discovery

Essentials

Needs

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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.

Intimacy

Littles

Looks

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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.

Heart

Roots

Tree

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

Might

Path

Woods

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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.

Love

People

Two

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