Jane Hirshfield (February 24, 1953 -) The ability to stay in the moment, to investigate it through my own body and mind, was what I most needed to learn at that point in my life. To stay within my own experience more fearlessly. I think that’s why I needed to practice Zen, rather than go …
Jane Hirshfield On Poetry
Jane Hirshfield (February 24, 1953 -) I don't think poetry is based just on poetry; it is based on a thoroughly lived life. And so I couldn't just decide I was going to write no matter what; I first had to find out what it means to live.
Jane Hirshfield On The Creative Self
Jane Hirshfield (February 24, 1953 -) The creative self asks the surrender of ordinary conceptions of identity and will for a broader kind of intimacy and allegiance.