Top 78 Quotes by Edward Hirsch

About Edward Hirsch

These are some quotes by American author Edward Hirsch Poet, who was born on January 20, 1950.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Edward Hirsch

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

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

Edward Hirsch

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

Edward Hirsch

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

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.

Edward Hirsch

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

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

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.

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

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Edward Hirsch

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

Edward Hirsch

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