Jane Hirshfield Quotes

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.

The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.