Jane Hirshfield Quote

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.


Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry (ed. Bloodaxe Books, 2008)


Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through...

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through...

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through...

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through...