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Edward Hirsch Quotes

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

Edward Hirsch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Start You Place Over Through

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

Jill Ireland

Life Yourself Think Fighter Victim

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Joey Santiago

Night Believe Loved Down Go Want

I'm a pretty hard worker.

Jennifer Garner

Hard Pretty Hard Worker Worker

I try to work with people the way they prefer.

Jennifer Hyman

Work People Way Try Prefer

What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.

Max Keiser

Career Wall Street Big Illusions

I don't have an end game. Being a celestial being, I live for the moment to fight the Great War, and that is to light the darkness.

Matt Hardy

Live Great Light Moment Darkness

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Ann Landers

Success Think Two Lord Sit Us

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Ann Makosinski

Learning Me You Create First Steps

Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about.

Tom Perez

Water Government Care You Values

Every person's every action has an effect.

Rosanne Cash

Action Person Effect Every

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Leadership Failure Fishing People Me

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

Failure Great Man Weakness Credit