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Edward Hirsch Quotes

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future Focus Job Inspire Poet Some

People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

Family Morning Time Job School I Am

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

Drive Small Tools Budget Need Give

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

Work Good Wife Team Because Working

I just kind of wanted to do something where you don't just see 'Kardashian' everywhere.

You Kind See Where Something Just

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

Funny Good Time Song Story Long

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

Path You Look Cards Nobody Follow

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

Funny Hurt Pride End Feel Laugh

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.

Me Someone Done Focused Open Tell

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Music Know Without Pretty Exist

I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird.

Good Music Weird Make A Difference

I always like to keep myself moving.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Myself Moving Always Keep Like

Today's fathers are having a rough go being kindly portrayed in the media. Thank God, we do we have President Barack Obama for a national model. He both dotes on and takes a firm loving hand to our first-family daughters.

God Today Thank God Media Loving Go

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