Jane Hirshfield Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Garden, Essentials, Tasks

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press

• Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Past, Mind

• Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Thinking, Imagination, Mind

• Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

• Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Moving, Self, House

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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