Jane Hirshfield Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Hinges

  Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

• 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.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Roots, Tree

• The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Oil, Mind

• Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Simple, Mind

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

• Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Vocabulary, Knowing

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

• I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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