Life has to have the plenitude of art. Edward Hirsch artlifeplenitude Change image and share on social
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. Edward Hirsch chicagodesperationemotional Change image and share on social
I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief. Edward Hirsch ancientcelebrityculture share on social
Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose. Edward Hirsch agecarrychild share on social
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. Edward Hirsch thinkwritewriter Change image and share on social
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. Edward Hirsch amountattentiondemand share on social
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. Edward Hirsch 1960sageamerican Change image and share on social
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. Edward Hirsch begingoodimitate Change image and share on social
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice. Edward Hirsch carrypoetryrely Change image and share on social
Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions. Edward Hirsch celebratedeepemotion Change image and share on social