Quotes by : Edward Hirsch

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....

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I....

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

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

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

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

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

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

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer....