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You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt so that it's well made and you can hope that it outlasts time. But, ultimately that's not up to you.
Edward Hirsch
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Edward Hirsch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 20
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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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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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In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem.
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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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One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I have to have a formal idea. Something has to be being worked out in poetry.
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The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.
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There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the Sleepwalkers, I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.
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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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There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.
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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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There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
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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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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 would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.
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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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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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