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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

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. — 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

If it was true that all paths in our World led to only one place, then why not fill whatever path you chose with the best things you could find? — Jeff 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

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like. — 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 a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming. — Alex 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

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith. — Alex 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

She herself feels unequal to the world's sufferings and fears that by narrowing her focus on the world to make it manageable, she has trivialized it. — 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

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural. — Alan Hirsch

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. — Edward Hirsch

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like. — Emile 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

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down. — 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

There was never anything between us and there never will be. Don't waste any more time worrying about feelings that neither of us ever had. - Jake — Jeff Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian. — 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

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise. — Alex Hirsch

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers. — Emile Hirsch

There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT. — Alan Hirsch

As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating. — Emile Hirsch

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. — Edward Hirsch

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. — Alan Hirsch

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire. — Lee Hirsch

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures. — Samson Raphael Hirsch

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.' — Leonard Sweet

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

I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young. — 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

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. — Alan Hirsch

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change. — Alan Hirsch

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer. — Alan Hirsch

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work. — Edward Hirsch

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap. — Alan Hirsch

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind. — Edward Hirsch

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life. — Alan Hirsch

My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working! — Alex Hirsch

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point. — Alan Hirsch

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries. — Edward Hirsch

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! — Emile Hirsch

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm. — Edward Hirsch

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will. — Alan 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

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. — Paul Hirsch

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud! — Alex Hirsch

There's no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism. — Alan Hirsch

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress. — Alan Hirsch