Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being… — 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
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
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
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express… — 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
