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Author - Jane Hirshfield
Quotes by : Jane Hirshfield
experience
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into....
art
To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight,....
age
Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing....
hope
Hope is the hardest love we carry.
compassion
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.....
poetry
The heart's actionsare neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite.....
nature
Standing DeerAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy....
poetry
Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.
poetry
as some strings, untouched,sound when no one is speaking.So it was when love slipped inside us.
poetry
Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
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