"One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is……" — Edward Hirsch
"One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss."
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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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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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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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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I…
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
— Erich Fromm
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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable…
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
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