Edward Hirsch Quotes

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

Edward Hirsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

John Hillcoat

PositiveBeautifulPeopleWorldPoor

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

Anna Chlumsky

GoodPeopleBadSome PeopleSome

I don't take Mars One seriously at all.

Andy Weir

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I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.

John Shelby Spong

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It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

Steve Buscemi

FunnyGreatWorkingThoseGuysJim

Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.

Stephen Merchant

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The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

Mike Rounds

ElectionImportantForgetTalkOver

I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.

Michelle Rodriguez

GameActressFanVideoBeforeThem

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.

Jason Biggs

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Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

Condoleezza Rice

TeaPeopleThinkSittingJustWere

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

Clive Thompson

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Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

Cindy Gallop

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