--- title: "12 Needs Quotes By Edward Hirsch" description: "12 Needs quotes by Edward Hirsch. Plus more from Edward Hirsch and more Needs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/edward-hirsch-1614_connection_i-think-that-s-a-connection-that-you-can_973426.png" --- > [I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-think-that-s-a-connection-that-you-can-only-hope-for-it-s-not/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/edward-hirsch-1614_connection_i-think-that-s-a-connection-that-you-can_973426.png) > [I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-need-to-live-like-that-crooked-tree-that-knelt-down-in-the-hardest/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/edward-hirsch-1614_crooked_i-need-to-live-like-that-crooked-tree-th_1567103.png) > [I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-would-be-happier-if-people-who-went-through-mfa-programs-also-were/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/edward-hirsch-1614_books_i-would-be-happier-if-people-who-went-th_2009270.png) > [The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/the-imagination-is-an-organ-of-understanding-and-the-imagination/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/edward-hirsch-1614_conscious_the-imagination-is-an-organ-of-understan_911781.jpg) > [The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/the-spiritual-desire-for-poetry-can-be-overwhelming-so-much-do-i-need/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/edward-hirsch-1614_depth_the-spiritual-desire-for-poetry-can-be-o_475160.png) > [You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/you-re-alone-with-yourself-and-your-own-feelings-and-that-gives-you/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad7/edward-hirsch-1614_access_you-re-alone-with-yourself-and-your-own_2700802.png) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/there-s-always-some-place-to-go-you-don-t-need-workshops-you-don-t/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f75/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-s-always-some-place-to-go-you-don_254920.png) > [In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/in-a-way-that-s-also-a-recognition-that-dante-needs-virgil-and-that/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b96/edward-hirsch-1614_aeneas_in-a-way-that-s-also-a-recognition-that_855045.jpg) > [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) > [Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/poetry-never-loses-its-appeal-sometimes-its-audience-wanes-and/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/edward-hirsch-1614_appeals_poetry-never-loses-its-appeal-sometimes_435298.jpg) > [So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/so-the-process-of-revision-it-s-not-systematic-but-for-me-i-mean-i/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88e/edward-hirsch-1614_able_so-the-process-of-revision-it-s-not-syst_2166421.png) > [When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/when-i-taught-at-the-university-of-houston-in-the-creative-writing-2/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bd/edward-hirsch-1614_attention_when-i-taught-at-the-university-of-houst_3062442.png) ## Other authors on Needs ## 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/needs/edward-hirsch/#itemlist", "name": "12 Needs Quotes By Edward Hirsch", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. 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