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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
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
— Alan 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
Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.
— David Z. Hirsch
What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.
— Judd 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
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
— Alan Hirsch
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
— Alan Hirsch
Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.
— Samson Raphael Hirsch
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
— Alan Hirsch
Each question would open a door. What Glenn had to ask herself was, did she want to step through them to the other side?
— Jeff Hirsch
I read a lot as a kid and in high school.
— Edward Hirsch
However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.
— Samson Raphael Hirsch
You were stalwart.
— Jeff Hirsch
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
— Edward Hirsch
I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.
— Emile 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
There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is.
— Alex Hirsch
We live in a divine world.
— Samson Raphael Hirsch
We can only understand what we can name.
— Edward Hirsch
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
A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.
— Edward Hirsch
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
— Alex 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.
— 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
As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.
— Edward Hirsch
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
— Emile Hirsch
The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.
— Edward Hirsch
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
— Emile Hirsch
Babies used to make me nervous, but these squirmy things are awesome once you've read the manual.
— David Z. Hirsch
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
— Alan Hirsch
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
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
— Alan 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 absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.
— Edward Hirsch
It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?
— Jeff Hirsch
Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.
— Edward Hirsch
Nothing is separate. Everything is one thing.
— Jeff Hirsch
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
— Alan Hirsch
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.
— Emile Hirsch
It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
— Alan Hirsch
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
— Alan Hirsch
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
— Alan Hirsch
I wish I could believe in the otherworld I wish I could believe in a place Of reunions outside of memory
— Edward Hirsch
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.
— Edward Hirsch
As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating.
— Emile Hirsch
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.
— Edward Hirsch
One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.
— Samson Raphael Hirsch
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.
— Edward Hirsch
Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.
— Emile Hirsch
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
— Alan Hirsch
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
— Edward Hirsch
Her dreamy countenance infuriated me more than her words. I had seen that expression directed at me once upon a time.
— David Z. Hirsch
There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.
— Edward Hirsch
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
— Edward Hirsch
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
— Alan Hirsch
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
— Alan Hirsch
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
— 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
Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.
— Alex Hirsch
