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

Edward Hirsch

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Edward Hirsch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 20
Poet
Chicago
Illinois
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Wonder
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A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.
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It's not important - it's not necessary that you read everything. What is necessary is that you care about things that you read and that you find something that really matters to you and you try and make something like that.
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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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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 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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The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.
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Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same
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think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.
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A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.
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There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.
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The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.
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I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.
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The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.
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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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I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.
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Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong.
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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.
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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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I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.
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