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Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Better Dark Deep Felt Me Mesmerized More Myself Poems Something Them Touch Trying Within Writing

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Life has to have the plenitude of art.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Art Life

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Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Place Poetry Sequence Take Takes Things Time

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I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Life My Life Poet Poetry Spent

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Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Articulate Because Courage Face Feel How Poetry Takes Things Try You

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As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: About America Before Begins Everyone Happens Heal Healing Mourn Something Soon Talking Us You

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I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Ancient Celebrity Cultures Death Denial Done Experience Find Focus Grief Grieving Harder Incorporated Life Makes More Natural Natural Way Obsessive Our People Place Than Think Way Who Youth I Think

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Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Cause Depression Feeling Mourning Without

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Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: After Age Almost Almost Everyone Anyone Around Carrying Certain Certain Age Child Endless Everyone Hide Like Lost People Possibility Recover Sense Some Some People Something Suppose Tell Well Who Will You

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Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Asleep Awake Consciousness Creates Else Everyone Everyone Else Feeling Like Middle Much Night Poetry Solitude Someone Soul Very

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 20th, 1950

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