Edward Hirsch Quotes

One 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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 20, 1950

Topics

WordsPoetryDeepSpeechFeeling

I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.

Jesse Williams

WorkHomeHistoryMyselfSchoolMe

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Mel Gibson

LifeLearnYouKnowWonderfulThem

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Jean Paul

HealthSleepMustEnjoyedRiches

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

Sojourner Truth

WomenMenThinkTalkingWhiteWill

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

Roger Ebert

SometimesCastingAbout

We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.

Rory O'Malley

PerfectMoreUpGiveWorkingUnion

I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.

CM Punk

LifeHockeyWeirdMy LifeTalking

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

Anthony Hecht

BestYourselfFunSayingMystery

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

Allen Iverson

PeopleMeCriticismSayUnderstand

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

Philip Zimbardo

LifePrisonUnderstandClassOut

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

Peter Criss

EducationPeopleBrooklynPoorUp

Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.

Thomas Vernor Smith

SaidFoolishManyBelieved

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