--- title: "19 Way Quotes By Edward Hirsch" description: "19 Way quotes by Edward Hirsch. Plus more from Edward Hirsch and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99a/edward-hirsch-1614_books_now-i-do-say-it-s-possible-you-might-be_2161322.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) > [Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/fiction-writers-learn-about-the-development-of-metaphor-the-use-of/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/edward-hirsch-1614_character_fiction-writers-learn-about-the-developm_3217289.png) > [As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/as-far-as-i-m-concerned-freedom-is-the-most-important-thing-to/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fd/edward-hirsch-1614_creativity_as-far-as-i-m-concerned-freedom-is-the-m_1849391.png) > [The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/the-line-is-a-way-of-framing-poetry-all-verse-is-measured-by-lines/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/edward-hirsch-1614_communication_the-line-is-a-way-of-framing-poetry-all_2829485.png) > [The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/the-way-to-become-a-poet-is-to-read-poetry-and-to-imitate-what-you/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/edward-hirsch-1614_involved_the-way-to-become-a-poet-is-to-read-poet_800159.png) > [I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-didn-t-read-poetry-seriously-until-college-when-i-really-began-to/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b0/edward-hirsch-1614_college_i-didn-t-read-poetry-seriously-until-col_2771635.jpg) > [Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/sometimes-the-title-comes-to-you-at-the-beginning-sometimes-it-comes/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/edward-hirsch-1614_best-way_sometimes-the-title-comes-to-you-at-the_1914504.png) > [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) > [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) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07b/edward-hirsch-1614_beautiful_often-you-ve-read-another-poem-that-you_413540.jpg) > [I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-was-once-doing-a-question-and-answer-period-with-the-novelist-jane/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/414/edward-hirsch-1614_answers_i-was-once-doing-a-question-and-answer-p_1346043.jpg) > [And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/and-it-was-the-title-august-13th-for-most-of-the-way-and-then-near/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d4/edward-hirsch-1614_august_and-it-was-the-title-august-13th-for-mos_2858766.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) > [I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-think-it-shapes-it-in-very-deep-ways-that-you-don-t-entirely/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30f/edward-hirsch-1614_becoming_i-think-it-shapes-it-in-very-deep-ways-t_2956420.png) > [I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/i-ve-been-fascinated-over-the-years-by-the-way-refrains-work-think/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/edward-hirsch-1614_back_i-ve-been-fascinated-over-the-years-by-t_1861404.png) > [Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/daydreaming-is-one-of-the-key-sources-of-poetry-a-poem-often-starts/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01a/edward-hirsch-1614_daydream_daydreaming-is-one-of-the-key-sources-of_1232260.png) > [A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/a-great-model-for-this-is-the-way-that-dante-calls-on-virgil-at-the/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/edward-hirsch-1614_comedy_a-great-model-for-this-is-the-way-that-d_1276802.png) > [One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/one-of-the-things-that-distinguishes-poetry-from-ordinary-speech-is/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/edward-hirsch-1614_communication_one-of-the-things-that-distinguishes-poe_2981076.jpg) > [Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/rhythm-is-sound-in-motion-it-is-related-to-the-pulse-the-heartbeat/) [Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/edward-hirsch-1614_heartbeat_rhythm-is-sound-in-motion-it-is-related_1766929.png) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/edward-hirsch/#itemlist", "name": "19 Way Quotes By Edward Hirsch", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Now, I do say, \"It's possible. You might be the first. 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