Quotes by : Jane Hirshfield

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into....

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

Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing....

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

It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's....

Standing DeerAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy....

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

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

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

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