Found Quotes by Edward Hirsch

8 Found quotes by Edward Hirsch

Hirsch’s lyrical approach turns the act of finding into a quiet, resonant moment. These eight excerpts are short enough for a quick read yet carry the weight of his thoughtful, measured voice.

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I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's…

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And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from…

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In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go,…

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But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think…

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Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's…

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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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And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can…

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I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish…

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After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

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It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention…

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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the…

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Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

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You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're…

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The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk,…

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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…

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Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

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