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One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.Jane Hirshfield
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One way poetry connects is across time.. .. Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.Jane Hirshfield
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Age in itself gives substance – what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer’s mind.Jane Hirshfield