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 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.....

To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight,....

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.....

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

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

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.