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 Hirshfield More Quotes by Jane Hirshfield More Quotes From Jane Hirshfield I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon"). Jane Hirshfield phones cells years 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 umbria artist years Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable. Jane Hirshfield expansion concentration silence An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds. Jane Hirshfield woods path might 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 glimpse given dust 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 singing community literature 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 tongue mouths promise I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting, after going to a class offered at my local library. Jane Hirshfield taken rain writing The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield perspective exercise writing Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool. Jane Hirshfield pockets stones hands Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another. Jane Hirshfield self house moving A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. Jane Hirshfield patches dishes goes-on A poem can use anything to talk about anything. Jane Hirshfield use Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled. Jane Hirshfield shows bird world 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 choices running past So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem. Jane Hirshfield geography birth pain I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm. Jane Hirshfield range middle different Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working. Jane Hirshfield shadow-work shadow way 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 perspective may thinking 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 eye writing hands
.&pic=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-eec47eef1ff440d6dfdfb95fd0b4dd62.jpg&ralateUid=&language=zh_cn){kind=link}
.&media=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-eec47eef1ff440d6dfdfb95fd0b4dd62.jpg){kind=link}
