TreeIt is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
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Jess C. Scott
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
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Sharon Salzberg
In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me...
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Dorothy Parker
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and...
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Sharon Salzberg
More Quotes By Jane Hirshfield
Hope is the hardest love we carry.
One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
As some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
One way poetry connects is across time.. .. Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
