“She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.” WritingTryingFeelingsPassionCreativityPoetConvincedEnthusiasmPoetry IsCarols Author:Edward Hirsch
“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
“You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.” NeedsGivingWritingFeelingsDeeperAccess Author:Edward Hirsch
“Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.” WantWritingSometimesFeelingsAppealsChests Author:Edward Hirsch
“And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.” WritingWellsI CanFeelingsCan DoComplicatedWriting WellComplicated ThingsFluency Author:Edward Hirsch
“So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly quickly whereas some of the clearest, simplest lyrics that I've written have taken me the longest to get to the clarity of feeling that you're looking for.” FeelingsAbleDifficultTakenWrittenSentencesClarityFormalSimplestSonnetOne Sentence Author:Edward Hirsch
“Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings of - express their own feelings and the feelings of their characters.” WayCharacterUseFeelingsOrderLanguageFictionDevelopmentMetaphorRhythmFiction Writers Author:Edward Hirsch
“Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.” GivingArtFeelingsLanguageSpaceEventsAccessMysteriousInner LifeInexplicable Author:Edward Hirsch
