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Edward Hirsch Quotes: The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.
         

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.


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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.



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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.



There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

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The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

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I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.



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The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.



But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.



A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.



I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.



But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.





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