287 Quotes by Edward Hirsch

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do a lot in a day.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

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.

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.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

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

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.