--- title: "10 Kind Quotes By Edward Hirsch" description: "10 Kind quotes by Edward Hirsch. Plus more from Edward Hirsch and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/edward-hirsch-1614_attention_i-don-t-think-poetry-will-die-but-i-thin_2114037.png" --- > [I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-don-t-think-poetry-will-die-but-i-think-that-poetry-does-demand-a-2/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/edward-hirsch-1614_attention_i-don-t-think-poetry-will-die-but-i-thin_2114037.png) > [A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/a-certain-kind-of-poetry-looks-back-at-experience-from-an-older/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/653/edward-hirsch-1614_certain_a-certain-kind-of-poetry-looks-back-at-e_1120258.png) > [I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-walk-with-federico-garcia-lorca-around-the-upper-west-side-in/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/edward-hirsch-1614_apprenticeship_i-walk-with-federico-garcia-lorca-around_1653874.png) > [The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/the-idea-of-how-to-read-a-poem-is-based-on-the-idea-that-poetry-needs/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/edward-hirsch-1614_alone_the-idea-of-how-to-read-a-poem-is-based_339095.jpg) > [In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/in-american-tradition-a-certain-kind-of-i-would-say-desperate/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd7/edward-hirsch-1614_american-tradition_in-american-tradition-a-certain-kind-of_1998428.png) > [I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-just-think-that-limits-the-kinds-of-experiences-that-people-can/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a4/edward-hirsch-1614_attention_i-just-think-that-limits-the-kinds-of-ex_1229491.png) > [I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-think-there-are-different-kinds-of-poetry-for-different-stages-of/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/edward-hirsch-1614_agony_i-think-there-are-different-kinds-of-poe_786175.png) > [That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/that-you-write-a-phrase-or-you-think-of-something-and-it-seems-to/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/edward-hirsch-1614_creating_that-you-write-a-phrase-or-you-think-of_583233.png) > [I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-would-say-there-are-different-kinds-of-poems-there-are-things-that/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/edward-hirsch-1614_age_i-would-say-there-are-different-kinds-of_2509857.jpg) > [Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/often-you-ve-read-another-poem-that-you-think-is-so-beautiful-that/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07b/edward-hirsch-1614_beautiful_often-you-ve-read-another-poem-that-you_413540.jpg) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Edward Hirsch > [And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/and-my-experience-is-the-best-titles-for-me-emerge-in-the-process-of/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-did-not-know-the-work-of-mourning-is-like-carrying-a-bag-of-cement/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [“Fall" Fall, falling, fallen. That’s the way the season Changes its tense in the long-haired maples That dot the road; the veiny hand-shaped leaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/fall-fall-falling-fallen-that-s-the-way-the-season-changes-its-tense/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-find-great-consolation-in-having-a-lot-of-poetry-books-around-i/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-had-feelings-that-i-didn-t-know-what-to-do-with-and-i-felt-better/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-think-in-terms-of-educating-a-group-of-readers-mfa-programs-are/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that poem once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/jonson-wrote-a-poem-and-called-his-son-his-best-piece-of-poetrie-a/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/after-my-grandfather-died-i-went-down-to-the-basement-of-my-family/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/it-does-demand-a-certain-space-in-order-to-read-it-and-i-think-that/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-put-down-these-memorandums-of-my-affections-in-honor-of-tenderness/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/poetry-is-a-vocation-it-is-not-a-career-but-a-calling/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/you-re-shadowed-by-your-own-dream-especially-as-you-get-older-of/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/the-attention-deficit-disorder-of-the-culture-is-very-distressing-in/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/now-as-i-ve-gotten-older-i-ve-been-able-to-write-more-quickly/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) > [Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/poetry-takes-courage-because-you-have-to-face-things-and-you-try-to/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/edward-hirsch/#itemlist", "name": "10 Kind Quotes By Edward Hirsch", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Hirsch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-don-t-think-poetry-will-die-but-i-think-that-poetry-does-demand-a-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/edward-hirsch-1614_attention_i-don-t-think-poetry-will-die-but-i-thin_2114037.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/edward-hirsch-1614_attention_i-don-t-think-poetry-will-die-but-i-thin_2114037.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/edward-hirsch-1614_attention_i-don-t-think-poetry-will-die-but-i-thin_2114037.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.” — Edward Hirsch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Hirsch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/a-certain-kind-of-poetry-looks-back-at-experience-from-an-older/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/653/edward-hirsch-1614_certain_a-certain-kind-of-poetry-looks-back-at-e_1120258.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/653/edward-hirsch-1614_certain_a-certain-kind-of-poetry-looks-back-at-e_1120258.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/653/edward-hirsch-1614_certain_a-certain-kind-of-poetry-looks-back-at-e_1120258.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.” — Edward Hirsch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. 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