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Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield
American Poet
Born: Feb 24, 1953
Am Experience Life Whatever World You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless. Jane Hirshfield
Art Whatever Living Something Missing Always Making Endless Want Lives
In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility. Jane Hirshfield
Life You Whatever Visibility Out Dream Dream Life About Insists Deliberately Come Look House Itself Trying After Night Set
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. Jane Hirshfield
Love Path Understanding Sense Transformation Inside See Poems Poetry Feel Toward New Looked Learn Offer Effort Gestures Specific
At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens. Jane Hirshfield
Life You Experience Try Some Entire Point Off End Get Human Happens Cut Realized Human Life Full Agree Spectrum Need
I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve. Jane Hirshfield
Service Something Poem Feel Like Make Am Serve

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