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Edward Hirsch
13 quotes
“The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem.”
Edward Hirsch (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Five points' vol 4 no 2 Georgia State University Press Winter 2000
“These ruinous days of Autumn.At dusk, the brightness seeps through the crumbling air, at dusk the air gathers up the brightness”
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“I was never able to pray but let me inscribe my name in the book of waves.”
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“Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.”
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“Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution , a perception.”
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“There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.”
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“For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.”
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“The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.”
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“The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.”
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“The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.”
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“Poetry is a form of necessary speech.”
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“Examples of Hirsch poems”
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“Extract links Hirsch's 'Poets Glossary'”
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