“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.” KindSidesWalksImaginePoetWalkingDramaWestParisNeighborhoodManhattanApprenticeshipWest SideLorcaPeruvians 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
“That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has to be some kind of marker, something setting out a space, creating a space for what's going to come.” ThinkingWritingKindSeemsSpaceCreatingDeeperSettingSettingsTitlesPhrasesMarkers Author:Edward Hirsch
“I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very young that can never be outdone and it's a remarkable, strange experience when you think of say Arthur Rimbaud who write poetry between the ages of 17 and 21 whose career was over by the time he was 22.” ThinkingWritingKindDifferentAgeYoungCareersStrangePoetRemarkablePoetry IsDifferent KindsArthur Author:Edward Hirsch
“A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.” LooksKindCertainPerspective Author:Edward Hirsch
“I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.” ThinkingKindDifferentStageYouthLatePainfulDifferent KindsLife ExperienceAgonyExuberanceMidlifeStages Of Life 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
“I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that. But, I do think that it may save fewer souls if people can't pay attention.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindMaySoulPayAttentionWorryLimitsPay AttentionFewer Author:Edward Hirsch
“The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader and that meaning doesn't exist or in here in poems alone.” NeedsKindIdeasPoetReaderPoetry IsNeed YouCircuits 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
