Edward Hirsch Quotes

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

Edward Hirsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

Joel Osteen

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I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

Matthew Lillard

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There are certain aspects that I miss of coaching. But you can't just pick out the good parts. You've got to be all-in and understand there's some negatives, too.

Jeff Van Gundy

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The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

Jean-Marc Ayrault

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I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

John Updike

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Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.

Stevie Nicks

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I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.

Tom Weston-Jones

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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

Rowan Atkinson

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I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

Miles Teller

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I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.

Lucas Till

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

Josh Turner

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