There have always been great defenses of poetry, a... -Edward Hirsch

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

Edward Hirsch , Poet
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Edward Hirsch is an American poet known for his emotional and reflective verse. He has published numerous poetry collections, including "Wild Gratitude," "Earthly Measures," and "Gabriel: A Poem." Hirsch's poems often explore themes of loss, love, and the human experience. He has received critical acclaim for his work and has been honored with awards such as the National Book Critics Circle Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. Hirsch's poetry continues to resonate with readers for its lyrical beauty and profound insights into the complexities of life.

Edward Hirsch Quotes to Explore

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel....
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 ...
The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience o...
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we require...
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry ...
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the ...
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a ...
I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry....
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing ...
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poe...

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...