Jane Hirshfield Quotes

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

Jane Hirshfield

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• My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Military

• Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Service
  • Literature
  • Adventure

• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Proud
  • Growth

• I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Military
  • Service
  • Fire

• I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Service

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Man
  • Black
  • Water

• I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Great
  • Think
  • Intelligent

• I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Service
  • Own

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Man

• I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Start

• There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Green

• The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Service
  • Enough

• My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Family
  • Service
  • Something

• I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Service

• We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Best
  • Service
  • Need

• I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life
  • Die

• 'Your son was in your own tradition.''Better, I hope,' said the old man. 'There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Hope
  • Son

• When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • Energy
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

  

  T. Thorn Coyle
  • God
  • Connection

• Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • War
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Service