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" Tenderness does not choose its own uses.
It goes out to everything equally,
circling rabbit and hawk.
Look: in the iron bucket,
a single nail, a single ruby -
all the heavens and hells.
They rattle in the heart and make one sound. "

Jane Hirshfield , The Lives of the Heart


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Jane Hirshfield quote : Tenderness does not choose its own uses.<br />It goes out to everything equally,<br />circling rabbit and hawk.<br />Look: in the iron bucket,<br />a single nail, a single ruby -<br />all the heavens and hells.<br />They rattle in the heart and make one sound.