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Edward Hirsch Quotes

American - Poet | January 20, 1950 -

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Poetry Well Been Who Poets Margins

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

Integrity Passion Great Poetry Deep

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

Life My Life Poet Absolutely Crucial

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

Poetry Me Think Thinking Three Will

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

Poetry Happy Advocate

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

School High School Kid High Read

I 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.

Poetry College Thought Someone Way

The 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.

Myself Poetry Practice Me Writing

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Grief Emotions Human Deepest Always

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

Experience Poetry Mind Writing Start

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.

Poetry Mind Key Thinking Language

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

Human Warmth Like Poems Machinery

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