--- title: "13 Reader Quotes By Edward Hirsch" description: "13 Reader quotes by Edward Hirsch. Plus more from Edward Hirsch and more Reader sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wa_2306619.png" --- > [There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wasn-t-also-a-great-reader-of/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wa_2306619.png) > [My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/my-focus-is-on-the-reader-and-that-the-poet-s-job-is-not-to-inspire-2/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/816/edward-hirsch-1614_books_my-focus-is-on-the-reader-and-that-the-p_2547602.png) > [As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/as-a-reader-you-have-a-task-to-do-you-have-something-to-do-you-bring/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12a/edward-hirsch-1614_books_as-a-reader-you-have-a-task-to-do-you-ha_887056.png) > [Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/now-i-do-say-it-s-possible-you-might-be-the-first-i-m-not-saying-it-s/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99a/edward-hirsch-1614_books_now-i-do-say-it-s-possible-you-might-be_2161322.png) > [Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/books-and-newspapers-assume-a-common-reader-that-is-a-person-who/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc4/edward-hirsch-1614_assuming_books-and-newspapers-assume-a-common-rea_541062.jpg) > [Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/readers-bring-their-own-experiences-their-own-range-of-their-own/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/722/edward-hirsch-1614_books_readers-bring-their-own-experiences-thei_2868360.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) > [There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/there-s-been-no-poet-no-great-poet-in-the-history-of-poetry-who-hasn/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-s-been-no-poet-no-great-poet-in-th_815088.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) > [When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/when-you-find-it-you-become-the-secret-addressee-of-a-literary-text/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/edward-hirsch-1614_books_when-you-find-it-you-become-the-secret-a_2535878.png) > [I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/edward-hirsch-1614_bits_i-think-in-terms-of-educating-a-group-of_111871.jpg) > [The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/the-idea-of-a-poem-as-a-message-in-a-bottle-means-that-it-s-sent-out/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/369/edward-hirsch-1614_becomes_the-idea-of-a-poem-as-a-message-in-a-bot_1278704.png) > [My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/my-focus-is-on-the-reader-and-that-the-poet-s-job-is-not-to-inspire/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e9/edward-hirsch-1614_books_my-focus-is-on-the-reader-and-that-the-p_1102889.png) ## Other authors on Reader ## 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/reader/edward-hirsch/#itemlist", "name": "13 Reader Quotes By Edward Hirsch", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Hirsch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wasn-t-also-a-great-reader-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wa_2306619.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wa_2306619.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wa_2306619.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.” — Edward Hirsch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. 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