“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“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… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that poem once… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
