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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.
Edward Hirsch
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Edward Hirsch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 20
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Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same
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I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.
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So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.
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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.
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A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.
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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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So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.
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Books and newspapers assume a common reader that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency
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A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.
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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.
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And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.
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I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.
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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.
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The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.
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There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
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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.
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When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.
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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.
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A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.
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