Top 78 Quotes by Edward Hirsch

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

I'm so happy to be an advocate for 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.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

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.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.