I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that… — 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 it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards… — 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
One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet… — 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
