Quotes by : Edward Hirsch

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will....

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my....

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

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words,....

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

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and....