Edward Hirsch Quotes

• Leer poesía es una aventura de renovación, un acto creativo, un comienzo perpetuo, un renacer del asombro.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Adventure, Creative

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Space, Giving

  "Poet's Choice", www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2006.

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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

  Different, Use, Speech

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Giving, Feelings

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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• 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

  Poetry, Essentials, Needs

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• I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Agony, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  Poet, Reader, Great Poet

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• Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

  Edward Hirsch

  Trying, Movement, World

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

  Edward Hirsch

  Way, Poet, Involved

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.

  Edward Hirsch

  Keys, Aztec, Sage

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• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Morning, Distance, Sleep

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

  Edward Hirsch

  Poet, Negotiation, Range

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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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.

  Edward Hirsch

  Long, Noble, Entering

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• And every year there is a brief, startling moment
  When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and
  Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless
  Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air:
  It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
  It is the changing light of fall falling on us.

  Edward Hirsch

  Fall, Home, Autumn

  Edward Hirsch, “Fall”

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• I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Healing, Loss, Brotherhood

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.78, Knopf

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• The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader and that meaning doesn't exist or in here in poems alone.

  Edward Hirsch

  Ideas, Needs, Kind

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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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.

  Edward Hirsch

  Wind, Tree, Needs

  Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf

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• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Blood, Hands

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• Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

  Edward Hirsch

  Trying, Poet, Shelves

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

  Edward Hirsch

  Mañana, Noche, Pensar

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Names, Space

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

  Edward Hirsch

  Educación, Escuela, Personas

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• We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.

  Edward Hirsch

  School, Society, Able

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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.

  Edward Hirsch

  Titles, Way, Sometimes

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

  Edward Hirsch

  Character, Attention, Narrative

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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