Book Quote by Edward Hirsch

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

— Francois Truffaut

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise…

— A. R. Ammons

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

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