Jane Hirshfield said this quote

Hope is the hardest love we carry.

~ Jane Hirshfield

as some strings, untouched,sound when no one is speaking.So it was when love slipped inside us.

~ Jane Hirshfield

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

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