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Edward Hirsch Quotes

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

Edward Hirsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience Simple Poetry Reading New

I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

Joan Rivers

Change Angry Energy Forward Year

Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don't hesitate to report and block.

Jenna Wortham

Bullying Yourself You Hand Need

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Meryl Streep

People Me Young Way Honored Who

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Alphonse Karr

Women Men Think More Twenty Would

There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are few who can do both.

Stephen Hough

Individuality Others Wild Delight

I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.

Sonia Rykiel

Grow Grow Up Always Up Tomboy

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

Tony Kushner

Writing Political Say Kind Write

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys.

Rory MacLean

Home Roads City Breakfast Wall Map

I'd like to do something that involves music.

Michelle Dockery

Music Something Like Involves

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

Molly Antopol

History Responsibility Politics Job

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

Monica Johnson

God Truth Words Regret Back Will

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

Peter O'Toole

Job I Am Earth Who Am