Books Quote by Edward Hirsch

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm…

— Diane Wakoski

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would…

— Edward Albee

When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who…

— Jim Carroll

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in…

— Anonymous

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

Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you."…

— Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

— Sarah Kay

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman