"Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a……" — Edward Hirsch

"Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder."

— Edward Hirsch

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16 Quotes by Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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