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“I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.”

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This volume compiles a selection of poems that delve into a range of subjects, including love, nature, and personal reflection. more

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Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch is an American poet renowned for his profound emotion and rich imagination. His works often explore themes of personal identity, history, and memory, earning him the admiration of readers and critics alike. more

“And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.”

Feels Years Long Moments Home Body Light Fall Walks Air Middle Wind Invisible Shoulders Autumn Touching Pauses Sweeping Long Walks Autumn Wind

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.”

Source: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

“I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves”

Knows Dark Labor Mourning

Book:Gabriel: A Poem

Source: Gabriel: A Poem

“In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.”

Knows World Humans Language Poet Keys Realms Sage Enigma Aztec

Author:Edward Hirsch

“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.”

Different Ends Use Language Products Thousand Speech Property Mediums

Book:How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

Source: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

“I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.”

Humans Art Made Hands Remember Human Beings Blood Flesh Scales Thrive Poetry Is Bloody Flesh And Blood

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.”

Giving Art Feelings Language Space Events Access Mysterious Inner Life Inexplicable

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.”

Inspirational Ends Sometimes Whole Moments Success Process Goal Growth Failure Balls Accomplishment Reaching Zone Flags Summit Road To Success Peaking

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities””

Lows Expectations Disability Low Expectations

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

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