01c. 1950 ADI find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
03c. 1950 ADPoetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
04c. 1950 ADPoetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
05c. 1950 ADThe terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
06c. 1950 ADThe line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
07c. 1950 ADThe sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
08c. 1950 ADWhen poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
09c. 1950 ADOne of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
10c. 1950 ADI started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
11c. 1950 ADI grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
12c. 1950 ADPoetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
13c. 1950 ADI aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
15c. 1950 ADI didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
16c. 1950 ADThe idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
18c. 1950 ADWriting poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
19c. 1950 ADPoetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.Edward Hirsch / quote ↗
