Jane Hirshfield Quotes

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

Growth is often a painful process.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.