Quotes by : Edward Hirsch

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

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to....

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep,....

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

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

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

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

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

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are....

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing.....