Age gives substance — lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. older po — Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering Mind Poetry

Jane Hirshfield Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

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Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer’s mind.

Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

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