"Language is an impure medium. Speech is public……" — Edward Hirsch
"Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends."
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Edward Hirsch
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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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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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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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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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The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency;…
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God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals…
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All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
— Robert Collier
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The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom…
— Viktor Schauberger
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In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real…
— Ellen G. White
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Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well…
— Marlene Dumas
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.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works…
— David Livingstone
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates…
— Wladimir Klitschko
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As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit;…
— Samuel Johnson
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In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded…
— Clarence John Laughlin
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Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
— Karl Marx
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