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> [You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And…](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/)

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> [I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-think-the-culture-can-absorb-so-many-people-writing-poetry-and/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-found-a-comfort-in-trying-to-solve-some-poetic-problems-because/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-guess-that-would-have-been-1968-i-was-a-freshman-in-college-and-i/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/you-are-always-trying-to-make-something-that-is-more-than-the-sum-of/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/ultimately-you-re-trying-to-reach-across-and-find-some-other-person/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [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/)

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> [Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/emily-dickinson-calls-previous-poets-her-kinsmen-of-the-shelf-you-can/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/you-can-seek-clarity-you-can-seek-warmth-you-can-try-to-make/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-don-t-have-a-set-schedule-to-work-on-poetry-at-any-given-time-at/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-started-then-to-try-and-shape-something-rather-than-just-express-it/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/we-re-trying-to-make-something-that-lasts-in-language-and-there-s-no/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [It's not important - it's not necessary that you read everything. What is necessary is that you care about things that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/it-s-not-important-it-s-not-necessary-that-you-read-everything-what/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [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/)

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> [ She \[Carol Parsinan\] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/she-carol-parsinan-somehow-read-my-poems-and-came-back-to-me-and/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/our-sense-that-things-are-transient-that-everything-is-passing-and/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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## Other authors on Trying

## 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/)

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