The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt… — 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
