Jane Hirshfield Quotes

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

dreams are our spiritual illustrated discovery journals.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

asleep to rummage in their minds

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

In dreams begins responsiblities.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.