Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music … - Jane Hirshfield

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Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

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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.

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Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

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Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

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Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

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Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.

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