Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

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

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves