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1. "The Cloudy VasePast time, I threw the flowers out,washed out the cloudy vase.How easily the old clearnessleapt, like a practiced tiger, back inside it." ~ Jane Hirshfield
2. "Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it." ~ Jane Hirshfield
3. "Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said." ~ Jane Hirshfield
4. "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
5. "Standing DeerAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy to part with,the heart may grow cluttered.And still the house will be emptied,and still the heart.As the thoughts of a personin age sometimes grow sparer,like the great cleanness come into a room, the soul may grow sparer;one sparrow song carves it completely.And still the room is full,and still the heart.Empty and filled,like the curling half-light of morning,in which everything is still possible and so why not.Filled and empty,like the curling half-light of evening,in which everything now is finished and so why not.Beloved, what can be, what was,will be taken from us.I have disappointed.I am sorry. I knew no better.A root seeks water.Tenderness only breaks open the earth.This morning, out the window,the deer stood like a blessing, then vanished." ~ Jane Hirshfield
6. "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World If the gods bring to youa strange and frightening creature,accept the giftas if it were one you had chosen. Say the accustomed prayers,oil the hooves well,caress the small ears with praise. Have the new halter of woven silverembedded with jewels.Spare no expense, pay what is asked,when a gift arrives from the sea.Treat it as you yourselfwould be treated, brought speechless and nakedinto the court of a king.And when the request finally comes,do not hesitate even an instant----stroke the white throat,the heavy trembling dewlapsyou'd come to believe were yours,and plunge in the knife.Not oncedid you enter the pasturewithout pause,without yourself trembling,that you came to love it, that was the gift.Let the envious gods take back what they can." ~ Jane Hirshfield
7. "Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being." ~ Jane Hirshfield
8. "The Promise"Stay, I saidto the cut flowers.They bowedtheir heads lower.Stay, I said to the spider,who fled.Stay, leaf.It reddened,embarrassed for me and itself.Stay, I said to my body.It sat as a dog does,obedient for a moment,soon starting to tremble.Stay, to the earthof riverine valley meadows,of fossiled escarpments,of limestone and sandstone.It looked backwith a changing expression, in silence.Stay, I said to my loves.Each answered,Always." ~ Jane Hirshfield
9. "The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us." ~ Jane Hirshfield
10. "Perishable, It SaidPerishable, it said on the plastic container,And below, in different ink,The date to be used by, the last teaspoon consumed.I found myself looking;Now at the back of each hand,Now inside the knees,Now turning over each foot to look at the sole.Then at the leaves of the young tomato plants,Then at the arguing jays.Under the wooden table and lifted stones, looking.Coffee cups, olives, cheeses,Hunger, sorrow, fears-These too would certainly vanish, without knowing when.How suddenly thenThe strange happiness took me,Like a man with strong hands and strong mouth, Inside that hour with its perishing perfumes and clashings." ~ Jane Hirshfield
11. "as some strings, untouched,sound when no one is speaking.So it was when love slipped inside us." ~ Jane Hirshfield
12. "ChinaWhales followthe whale-roads.Geese, roads of magnetized air.To go great distance,exactitudes matter.Yet how oftenthe heartthat set out for Peruarrives in China,Steering hard.consulting the chartsthe whole journey." ~ Jane Hirshfield
13. "How fragile we are, between the few good moments." ~ Jane Hirshfield
14. "Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention." ~ Jane Hirshfield
15. "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." ~ Jane Hirshfield
16. "Everything has two endings-a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing." ~ Jane Hirshfield
17. "You must try,the voice said, to become colder.I understood at once.It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze,braced in stone. Only something heartlesscould bear the full weight." ~ Jane Hirshfield
18. "Neither a person entirely brokennor one entirely whole can speak.In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble." ~ Jane Hirshfield
19. "It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self. Having read it, we are not who we were the moment before.... Art lives in what it awakens in us... Through a good poem's eyes we see the world liberated from what we would have it do. Existence does not guarantee us destination, nor trust, nor equity, nor one moment beyond this instant's almost weightless duration. It is a triteness to say that the only thing to be counted upon is that what you count on will not be what comes. Utilitarian truths evaporate: we die. Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy." ~ Jane Hirshfield
20. "And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades,what will she say? Will she look at me with hatred or with compassion,I whose choices made her what she will be?" ~ Jane Hirshfield
21. "The heart's actionsare neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back to another because it can't not." ~ Jane Hirshfield
22. "Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes." ~ Jane Hirshfield
23. "As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it." ~ Jane Hirshfield
24. "There the beloved red sweater,bright tangle of necklace, earrings of amber.Each confirming: I chose these, I.But habit is different: it chooses.And we, it's good horse,opening our mouths at even the sight of the bit." ~ Jane Hirshfield
25. "Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains." ~ Jane Hirshfield
26. "The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider."[Autumn]" ~ Jane Hirshfield

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Ele me revelou um lado melhor do meu ser. Quer dizer, não falo apenas do talento para literatura. Refiro-me principalmente à sensibilidade, à liberdade para sentir intensamente e não ter mais vergonha disso. Falo de chorar quando a vontade vem, de fazer um gesto de carinho quando isso é tudo o que importa. Falo de ser humano quando isso significa conhecer nossos defeitos e limites, cientes de que nós somos sempre capazes de nos aprimorar, capazes de aprender a ser mais gente!"
Author: Camilo Gomes Jr.

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