Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Jane Hirshfield Quotes

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.

Jane Hirshfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Path Poetry Effort Feel Learn

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

John Carpenter

Love Science World Loved Movies Kid

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Max Lerner

You Serious Seventeen Really

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

Freedom Time Teen Youth Sometimes

I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Writing Walking Pen Down Train Hand

For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

Derek Jeter

Age Time Me Think Thinking Doing

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Brit Marling

Complicated Messy Human Human Beings

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Brooks Robinson

Book Now Three Years Fifty Just

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.

Willie Smits

Human Helpless Like Babies

I like being successful. Giving back is just a part of that.

Peter Loftin

Giving Back Giving Back Successful

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

Peter Beard

Life Art Myself School You Africa

Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one.

Peter Capaldi

Hero Opinion You Too Much Rock See

The U.S. cannot survive another four years of the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton regime.

Pete Hoekstra

Survive Years Cannot Four Another