American - Poet | January 20, 1950 -
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
Edward Hirsch
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I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.
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I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
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I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.
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I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
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The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.
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As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.
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I 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.
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I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
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There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.
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As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
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Life has to have the plenitude of art.
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