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Jane Hirshfield

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Jane Hirshfield Quotes

Total quotes: 2

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Jane Hirshfield

Birthname

Birthday: February 24, 1953

Educated At: Princeton University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Essayist, Linguist, Translator

Total quotes: 2

“Stay, I said
to the cut flowers.
They bowed
their heads lower.

Stay, I said to the spider,
who fled.

Stay, leaf.
It reddened,
embarrassed for me and itself.

Stay, I said to my body.
It sat as a dog does,
obedient for a moment,
soon starting to tremble.

Stay, to the earth
of riverine valley meadows,
of fossiled escarpments,
of limestone and sandstone.
It looked back
with a changing expression, in silence.

Stay, I said to my loves.
Each answered,
Always.”

— Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief: Poems

Tagged: Love, Living, Life, Stay, pleading, poem, Poetry

“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted.
Begin again the story of your life.”

— Jane Hirshfield, The Lives Of The Heart

Tagged: Life, Starting Over, Change, Personal Growth, New Beginning, Failure, Growth

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