A Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Jane Hirshfield

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Amazement Existence Good Itself Nothing Poems Restore

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Jane Hirshfield
American - Poet
Born: February 24, 1953

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

Hans Selye

One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: ‘I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor.’ Sometimes I would mention this amazement, but since no one seemed to share it, nor even to understand it (life consists of these little touches of solitude), I forgot about it.

Roland Barthes

Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

Werner Herzog

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

Jack Kerouac

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Maya Angelou

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

Roger Ebert

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Jack Kerouac

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Walt Whitman

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Andy Warhol

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

James Broughton

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

Peter Brook

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.