Young Quotes by Edward Hirsch

9 Young quotes by Edward Hirsch

Hirsch’s poetry often circles back to the fleeting nature of early life. These nine lines distill his reverence for youthful wonder and the passage of time.

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When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

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I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always…

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I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.

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A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life…

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It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work…

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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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Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly…

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I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA…

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I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when…

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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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