Author: Edward Hirsch

Quotes

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

- Edward Hirsch

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

- Edward Hirsch

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

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

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.

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

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

- Edward Hirsch

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

- Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

- Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

- Edward Hirsch

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.

- Edward Hirsch

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