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And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.
— Edward Hirsch
The same soul never steps into the river twice.
— Edward Hirsch
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.
— Edward Hirsch
You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.
— Edward Hirsch
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
— Edward Hirsch
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
— Edward Hirsch
I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body. — Edward Hirsch
As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
— Edward Hirsch
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
— Edward Hirsch
My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.
— Edward Hirsch
Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.
— Edward Hirsch
I read a lot as a kid and in high school.
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I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.
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Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
— Edward Hirsch
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
— Edward Hirsch
The poet would befriend and comfort himself, if only he could.
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The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.
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We can only understand what we can name.
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As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.
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The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.
— Edward Hirsch
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.
— Edward Hirsch
A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.
— Edward Hirsch
Life has to have the plenitude of art.
— Edward Hirsch
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
— Edward Hirsch
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
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The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
— Edward Hirsch
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.
— Edward Hirsch
I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.
— Edward Hirsch
Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do a lot in a day.
— Edward Hirsch
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.
— Edward Hirsch
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same
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Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
— Edward Hirsch
Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.
— Edward Hirsch
I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.
— Edward Hirsch
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.
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I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.
— Edward Hirsch
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.
— Edward Hirsch
I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.
— Edward Hirsch
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
— Edward Hirsch
Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets.
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
— Edward Hirsch
It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.
— Edward Hirsch
And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.
— Edward Hirsch
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
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As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.
— Edward Hirsch
The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.
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There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.
— Edward Hirsch
So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.
— Edward Hirsch
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.
— Edward Hirsch
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.
— Edward Hirsch
Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.
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There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.
— Edward Hirsch
I wish I could believe in the otherworld I wish I could believe in a place Of reunions outside of memory
— Edward Hirsch
I need to live like that crooked tree...
that knelt down in the hardest winds
but could not be blasted away. — Edward Hirsch
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.
— Edward Hirsch
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
— Edward Hirsch
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.
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Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms.
— Edward Hirsch
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
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All that rescues us is love.
— Edward Hirsch
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.
— Edward Hirsch
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
— Edward Hirsch
