What did Jane Hirshfield mean by: The untranslatable thought must be the most precise. - 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
+ What lives in words is what words were needed to learn. Feraz Zeid, July 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Poetry’s task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Increase, Reality, Tasks, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ If truth is the lure, humans are fishes. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, Fishes, Human, Truth, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ There are openings in our livesof which we know nothing. Feraz Zeid, June 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Jane Hirshfield, Opening, Our Lives, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Sound, Strings, 0 - Jane Hirshfield Poet · USA
+ Any woodthrush shows it – he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Hirshfield, Bird, 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
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France