"Read poems to yourself in the middle of……" — Edward Hirsch

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on… - Edward Hirsch

"Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you."

— Edward Hirsch

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