Quotes by : Jane Hirshfield

TreeIt is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house.Even in this one lifetime,you will have to....

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....

The heart's actionsare neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite.....

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

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to c....

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.