“I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry. One is dreams, and the other is childhood. I think childhood is an inexhaustible source of your becoming who you will be and certain deep feelings are set inside of you.” ThinkingWaySaidTwoFeelingsDreamCertainChildhoodSourceBecomingShapesVery DeepDeep Feeling Author:Edward Hirsch
“A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.” FeelsSometimesCertainEmotionAliveChildhoodResourcesWho You ArePainfulConstructsJoyous Author:Edward Hirsch
“Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to make a sonnet that works in a certain kind of way, or you try to make something that's songlike, or you create a refrain, or you love the way a poem works in two line stanzas and you try to do that.” ThinkingWayTryingKindTwoBeautifulCertainLinesSonnetRefrain Author:Edward Hirsch
“A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.” LooksKindCertainPerspective Author:Edward Hirsch
“I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the time that we're suffering and we don't really know how to think about, I think that puts certain things at risk.” ThinkingKnowsEndsCertainSufferingKnow HowRiskMediaMassMass Media Author:Edward Hirsch
“I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.” ThinkingKindDoeCertainDiesLanguageAttentionDemand Author:Edward Hirsch
“It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.” PeopleThinkingGivingDoeCertainOrderSpaceAttentionAmountDemandThreatened Author:Edward Hirsch
“In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.” TryingKindPersonsCertainSidesPoetPagesTraditionConnectionsDesperateReach OutFriendlinessAmerican Tradition Author:Edward Hirsch
