Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.
Jane HirshfieldThis garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
Jane HirshfieldGood 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