Edward Hirsch Quotes

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Edward Hirsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryCareerVocationCalling

For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment.

Andrew Yang

PathCommitmentChoiceProfessional

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

John Milton

SeaLightSunMoonVirtueSee

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

Robert Hass

MyselfDayPainYellowSpringEarly

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

SpeakProblemsThinkBedHappened

One of my best friends since I was eleven years old is a gay man, and I knew his struggle. It was a tough life, you not accepting yourself.

Trevante Rhodes

LifeBestStruggleManYourselfYou

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

Ron Fournier

OptimismAmericaNewSaidYears

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Mitt Romney

LeadershipResponsibilityExcuses

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

Mohamed ElBaradei

GovernmentWorldEgyptReactHuman

Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

Juan Diego Florez

ChangeLightPeopleVoiceEarthquake

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

Jonathan Ive

CultureValueIdeasThinkingDesign

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

Don Henley

HouseDownAlwaysOverPiecesPaper

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

Donald Berwick

GoodHealthChoicesCareDataYou

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