16 Quotes by Edward Hirsch about Writing

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    I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night. Now that I'm older I work really well in the early morning when your synapses are firing a little better. But I work at different times of the day.

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    You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

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    Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.

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    I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.

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    In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance.

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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.

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    Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

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