Thought for the Day

The world asks of us / 

only the strength we have and we give it. /

Then it asks more, and we give it.

~ Jane Hirshfield

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Quoted from Jane Hirshfield's Poem "The Weighing" in HERE: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), page 104

Jane Hirshfield, American Poet, Translator, Essayist