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I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Edward Hirsch

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

Edward Hirsch

'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

Edward Hirsch

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

Edward Hirsch

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

Edward Hirsch

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Edward Hirsch

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

Edward Hirsch

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

Edward Hirsch

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

Edward Hirsch

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

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.

Edward Hirsch

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

Edward Hirsch

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.

Edward Hirsch

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

Edward Hirsch

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

Edward Hirsch

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.

Edward Hirsch

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

Edward Hirsch

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

Edward Hirsch

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

Edward Hirsch

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

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

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

Edward Hirsch

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

Edward Hirsch

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

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

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

Edward Hirsch

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

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

Edward Hirsch

I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.

Edward Hirsch

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