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Edward Hirsch Quote: “I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other poems that were written by other people, when I had tried to integrate my reading and my writing I was on my path.”

101. “I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other poems that were written by other people, when I had tried to integrate my reading and my writing I was on my path.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet from your ancestors and I think that if you just leave anyone to become a poet based on an aristocratic society, then a lot of people are left out who might have something to offer.”

102. “I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet from your ancestors and I think that if you just leave anyone to become a poet based on an aristocratic society, then a lot of people are left out who might have something to offer.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.”

103. “I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “The poet would befriend and comfort himself, if only he could.”

104. “The poet would befriend and comfort himself, if only he could.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the “Sleepwalkers,” I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.”

105. “There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the “Sleepwalkers,” I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I’ve got something, I think, that I can be proud of.”

106. “But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I’ve got something, I think, that I can be proud of.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “All that rescues us is love.”

107. “All that rescues us is love.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.”

108. “The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “That is many poets don’t know how to tell a story and they don’t have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn’t just you and also creating a narrative structure.”

109. “That is many poets don’t know how to tell a story and they don’t have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn’t just you and also creating a narrative structure.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “And what I’ve found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.”

110. “And what I’ve found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “There has never been a great poet who wasn’t also a great reader of poetry.”

111. “There has never been a great poet who wasn’t also a great reader of poetry.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It’s not all inherit in the poem.”

112. “As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It’s not all inherit in the poem.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “Every poem is shadowed by desire, but it is also shadowed by the problem of rendering desire in language. There is a place where similitude seems to break down because experience itself seems beyond compare.”

113. “Every poem is shadowed by desire, but it is also shadowed by the problem of rendering desire in language. There is a place where similitude seems to break down because experience itself seems beyond compare.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it’s always open ended for you.”

114. “I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it’s always open ended for you.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.”

115. “I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.”

— Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch Quote: “I don’t think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.”

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

— Edward Hirsch

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