What did Jane Hirshfield mean by: A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand. - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA Copy
+ I don’t have a cell phone (though for years I’ve kept saying, “soon”). Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Cells, Phones, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Cold, Darkness, Moon, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ How silently the heart pivots on its hinge. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, Heart, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. Feraz Zeid, July 12, 2023December 12, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, Not Afraid, Sorrow, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity. Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, Ancient, Enmity, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Life is short. But desire, desire is long. Feraz Zeid, September 29, 2023December 31, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, Desire, Life Is Short, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, First, Gains, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Mind, Past, Writing, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy’s successor. - Jean-Claude Juncker Politician · Luxembourg
Love’s pleasure lasts but a moment; love’s sorrow lasts all through life. - Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Poet · France
They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. - Frank Herbert Author · USA
