Quotes by : Edward Hirsch

I did not know the work of mourningIs like carrying a bag of cementUp a mountain at nightThe mountaintop....

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that....

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language....

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.....

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life....

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way....

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies....

Why did the sun rise this morningIt's not naturalI don't want to see the lightIt's not time to close....

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to....