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Quote by Edward Hirsch

“Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same”

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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

“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.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Two Beautiful Certain Lines Sonnet Refrain

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“And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.”

Thinking Writing I Can Two Happens Found Worthy Two Things

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“One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I have to have a formal idea. Something has to be being worked out in poetry.”

Writing Two Important Ideas Emotional Stakes Formal

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“Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.”

Form Development Metaphor Traditional Inventing

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“But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.”

Thinking Wells I Can Two Together Proud Two Things Be Proud

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“Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience is when it comes in the middle.”

Way Ends Sometimes Middle Best Way Titles

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“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.”

Thinking Writing Kind Seems Space Creating Deeper Setting Settings Titles Phrases Markers

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“And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and hopefully they don't come at the very end because then it's getting late in the day.”

Writing Ends Process Late Hopefully Titles

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“I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.”

Persons Book Class Poet London Coming Out Pearls

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