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 world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.
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
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
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
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
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…
I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away. - Edward Hirsch
I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.
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
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…
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. - Edward Hirsch
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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
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.
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always g… - Edward Hirsch
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always g…
The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-… - Edward Hirsch
The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-…
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