Books Quote by Edward Hirsch

I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by any person.…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended…

— Edward Hirsch

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

— David Hockney

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things, generally tries…

— Frank Skinner

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

It's possible to like other poetry and still like mine. It's also possible to be not that into poetry and still quite like the…

— Tim Key