Edward Hirsch Quotes

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

Edward Hirsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryTryingYouDreamCreateWill

Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.

John Burroughs

LifeFatherMeBookHimPeculiar

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

Joely Richardson

MotherMoneySchoolBuildingThree

It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.

John McEnroe

NatureSomeoneHuman NatureYouKnow

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Rush Limbaugh

YouGuiltyCrimeCommit

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

Miguel

FeelBecomeI Feel LikeLikeI Feel

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

Mick Ralphs

TimeWifeMeWorldInternetShe

I can tell you the actor who I admire the most. Billy Crudup. Do you know who he is? He's awesome.

Jonathan Tucker

YouI CanKnowAdmireActorAwesome

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

Derek Jarman

SeaDecisionLawYouSexUnderstand

I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

Drake Bell

LoveAirplaneGunDoneNakedJust

Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.

Anthony Marra

WorkBusinessBestPeopleAmerican

It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it would be unfair for me to have done both. I thought I'd leave something for somebody else. That's a quip.

William Wyler

MusicMeThoughtDoneUnfairSound

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

Tyler Hilton

EndFameEntertainmentGoingMost

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