Edward Hirsch

Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully…

— Edward Hirsch

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's…

— Edward Hirsch

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Edward Hirsch

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a…

— Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction…

— Edward Hirsch

We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background…

— Edward Hirsch

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered…

— Edward Hirsch

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but…

— Edward Hirsch

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high…

— Edward Hirsch

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Edward Hirsch

Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about…

— Edward Hirsch

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

I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure…

— Edward Hirsch

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does…

— Edward Hirsch

I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry…

— Edward Hirsch

You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt…

— Edward Hirsch

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a…

— Edward Hirsch

I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I…

— Edward Hirsch

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the…

— Edward Hirsch