"I did not know the work of mourning……" — Edward Hirsch
"I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves"
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16 Quotes by Edward Hirsch
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have…
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're…
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,'…
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents…
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We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough…
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