a window moment
Jane Hirshfield: Many good poems have a kind of window-moment in them–a point at which they change their direction of gaze or thought in a way that suddenly opens a broadened landscape of meaning and feeling. Encountering such a moment, the reader breathes in some new infusion, as steeply perceptible as any physical window’s increase of light, scent, sound, or air. The gesture is one of lifting, unlatching, releasing; mind and attention swing open to newly peeled vistas.
sub rosa 
Reblogged this on Teach and Reach and commented:
enjoyed this perspective
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re-blogged on teachnreach thanks
Reblogged this on Seriously Clowning Around and commented:
well said, she should be a poet
I am going to have to read that book! The quote that you chose is good for all artists to read.
Absolutely! Book highly recommended!
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What a poetical picture. Love, Micheine
I love this quote. I didn’t see the name of the book it’s from? Also love the photo–did you take it?
quote from interview: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/jane-hirshfield-poetry_n_6896864.html
picture from web, no credits.
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Thank you! Wouldn’t it be lovely to live inside that house and look out that window? Makes me wonder about the rest of the room : )
oh yes, a wonderful place to write – and to hike.