Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the wo…

- Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

- Edward Hirsch

In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets w…

- Edward Hirsch

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

- Edward Hirsch

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

- Edward Hirsch

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

- Edward Hirsch

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midl…

- Edward Hirsch

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of mak…

- Edward Hirsch

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

- Edward Hirsch