Jane Hirshfield Quotes - Page 5

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• Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensurate singing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Community, Singing, Literature

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• Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Cat, Doors, Long

  "Come, Thief: Poems". Book by Jane Hirshfield, 2011.

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• The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Apples, Awkward, Cezanne

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• I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

  Jane Hirshfield

  Phones, Cells, Years

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

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• Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Artist, Umbria, Years

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

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

  Jane Hirshfield

  Taken, Moments, Anything Can Happen

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• I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come back with me from these travels.But I must trust that I will not treat frivolously the glimpses I've been given into other places and others' lives.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dust, Glimpse, Given

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• I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Winter, Apples

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Grief, Self, Tree

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• I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Different, Pace, Legs

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

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• Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Ideas, Feet, Choices

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Car, Sound

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

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• Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Doors, Self, Ordinary World

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

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• Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Views, Tea, Mountain

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• A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Goes On, Dishes, Patches

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

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• How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Promise, Mouths, Tongue

  Jane Hirshfield (1988). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.67, Wesleyan University Press

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• At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Running, Past, Choices

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

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• I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Different, Range, Middle

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

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• Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Love, Heat, Persons

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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• I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the "assay" poems (some labeled that, some not) that engage an abstraction or object from multiple angles.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Thinking, Perspective, May

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

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• The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Eye, Hands

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

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• A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sorrow, Stones, Way

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