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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, How to Read a Poem
The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.
EDWARD HIRSCH, The Kenyon Review, Spring 2000
There has never been a great poet who wasn’t also a great reader of poetry.
EDWARD HIRSCH, interview, 2007
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We’re involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We’re always going to need it.
EDWARD HIRSCH, interview, 2007
- I felt an angel's possessing grip, the flames
- rising from your skin,
- the shadow of the divine.
EDWARD HIRSCH, O Magazine, Feb. 2007
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