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“The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.”

Quote by Edward Hirsch

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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

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“And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.”

Writing Wells I Can Feelings Can Do Complicated Writing Well Complicated Things Fluency

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.”

Feelings Able Difficult Taken Written Sentences Clarity Formal Simplest Sonnet One Sentence

Author:Edward Hirsch

“So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out a draft and then revise it and I think they're happier people. But, I'm just not able to do it that way. I need to just continually examine it as I do it.”

People Thinking Knows Way Needs Writing Mean Able Process Poet Systematic Revision

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.”

Thinking America Culture Attention Risk Disorder Deficit Distressing Attention Deficit Disorder

Author:Edward Hirsch

“There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.”

World Different Play Use Purpose Culture Language World History Expressive

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.”

Thinking Knows Ends Certain Suffering Know How Risk Media Mass Mass 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.”

Thinking Kind Doe Certain Dies Language Attention Demand

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.”

Dies Born Stage Born Alone

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“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.”

People Thinking Giving Doe Certain Order Space Attention Amount Demand Threatened

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.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind May Soul Pay Attention Worry Limits Pay Attention Fewer

Author:Edward Hirsch