Wells Quotes by Edward Hirsch

8 Wells quotes by Edward Hirsch

Hirsch’s poetic insight surfaces in these eight short well‑related remarks, each one a brief, thoughtful glimpse into the unseen currents of feeling. Though limited in number, the lines echo his reflective, lyrical tone.

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The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths…

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The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even…

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I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

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But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something,…

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I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what…

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And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

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I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.…

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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…

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After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

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It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention…

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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the…

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Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

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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 so, you're…

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The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk,…

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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…

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Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

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