Jane Hirshfield

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

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These are some quotes by American author Jane Hirshfield Poet, who was born on February 24, 1953.

Quotes by Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Jane Hirshfield

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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

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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

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