I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself … - Jane Hirshfield

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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Jane Hirshfield

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.

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