Jane Hirshfield Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. February 24, 1953
Birthday: February 24
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life.
source: "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015. 
topic: Art, Vocabulary, Knowing, Immersion, Art Making
