Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself. Edward Hirsch darkdeepfelt Change image and share on social
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me. Edward Hirsch chicagodealgreat Change image and share on social
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. Edward Hirsch artbookclass Change image and share on social
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. Edward Hirsch asleepawakeconsciousness Change image and share on social
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. Edward Hirsch accustomamericanhelp Change image and share on social
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 deliverelegyexperience Change image and share on social
I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off. Edward Hirsch adventureamplitudefoot Change image and share on social
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. Edward Hirsch basecircuitexist share on social
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 alertnessassociativebring share on social
James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly. Edward Hirsch accentboyishlyconsummate Change image and share on social
