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Edward Hirsch Quotes

American - Poet | January 20, 1950 -

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

Poetry Trying You Dream Create Will

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

Work Great Poetry Think Criticism

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Creative Poetry Writing Houston Take

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

Thought Young Write Everything Would

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

Time Start You Place Over Through

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

Poetry Think You Television Watching

The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

Future Out Bottle Poem Idea Text

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.

Future Focus Job Inspire Poet Some

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

History Culture Poetry World Never

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Culture Poetry Language Play Call

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

Time Poetry Space People Think Die

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

Good People Table Different People

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