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Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Breathe Falls Heartbeat Motion Ourselves Out Pulse Related Rhythm Rises Sound Takes Us Way

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The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Does Experience Inheritance Loss Mortality Mourning Remembrance Turns Us Work

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James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Accent Elegant Gray Gray Hair Hair Hands He His James Laughs Manners New New York Precise Runs Splendid Storyteller Through York

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The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Difference Everyday Framing Immediately Line Lines Measured Poetic Poetry Prose Speech Verse Way

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Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Bring Daydream Daydreaming Different Drifting Finds Key Kind Language Mind Often Poem Poetry Seems Sort Sources Starts State Thinking Walking Way

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You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: About Bring Death Find Give Important Inadequate Language Life Life And Death Sacred Seriousness Something Try Trying Way Which Write You

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There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Been Culture History Never Poetry The History Of Without World

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I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Being Capable Emotionally Feel Present Still Young

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Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Acute Anguish Away Become Culture Deep Defined Grief Increasingly Intense Intolerant May Mental Our Remorse Sorrow Want Which

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One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Carry Change Course Else Endure Everyone Everyone Else Get Happens Just Live Lost One Of The Things Over Over It Someone Stronger Things Time Try Wants Who You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 20th, 1950

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