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Quotes by Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch, born on January 20, 1950, in the vibrant city of Chicago, is a renowned American poet, critic, and educator whose works bridge the realms of personal experience and universal themes. With a career spanning several decades, he has published numerous acclaimed poetry collections, including "Wild Gratitude" and "The Living Fire," which reflect his lyrical prowess and deep emotional insight. Hirsch's dedication to poetry extends beyond his own writing; he has served as a champion for the art form, inspiring generations through his teaching and advocacy.
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"The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance."
Edward Hirsch"Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind."
Edward Hirsch"Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty."
Edward Hirsch"The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision."
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"The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose."
Edward Hirsch"The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational."
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"I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things."
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"There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music."
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"The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting."
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"I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read."
Edward Hirsch"I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation."
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"I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences."
Edward Hirsch"Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind."
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