It's more for me as with going into a forest: if you sit quietly for a long time, the life around you emerges. As the world grows ever more clamorous, my hunger for silence steepens. I unplug the landline.
Jane HirshfieldPoetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving
Jane HirshfieldThe trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.
Jane HirshfieldOne breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
Jane Hirshfield