Advocate Quote by Edward Hirsch Download Open image “I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.” — Edward Hirsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advocate Happy Poetry
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin 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
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to advocate for yourself while you're in excruciating pain. — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
“The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business. — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
