What did Jane Hirshfield mean by: In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble. - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA Copy
+ Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Morning, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Balance, Dark, Joy, 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 fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Death, Fine, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Concentration, Expansion, Silence, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Familiar, Habit, Laziness, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Existence, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ The same words come from each mouth differently. Feraz Zeid, July 31, 2023December 12, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, Mouths, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
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
Love’s pleasure lasts but a moment; love’s sorrow lasts all through life. - Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian Poet · France
I live my life through fear. If I’m afraid of it I’ll do it just so I’m not afraid of it anymore. - Jeremy Renner Actor
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. - Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
You’ve got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I’m not afraid to screw up. - Fuzzy Zoeller Professional golfer