Jane Hirshfield Quotes

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

Jane Hirshfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 24, 1953

Topics

MusicWorldDeepThoughtSelfYou

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

Jim Sullivan

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Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

Jillian Hervey

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Chelsea is one of the most important clubs in the most important championship in Europe.

Maurizio Sarri

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London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

Steve Coogan

HateListeningDetailsLaughSayUp

My wife is used to Formula One, and she understands the life.

Romain Grosjean

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When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

Rupert Murdoch

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I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Roxane Gay

WomenExpectationsThinkHellRules

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

Mika Brzezinski

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Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Missy Elliott

WomenDownSometimesSeriouslyFoot

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous work, or to dismiss it because they didn't. I'm guilty of this as well - having preconceptions about other artists - but it's stupid because all music exists on its own and should be listened to with a clear head.

Dev Hynes

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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

Douglas Coupland

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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

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