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You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

~Edward Hirsch

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There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

~Edward Hirsch

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When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

~Edward Hirsch

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When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

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A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

~Edward Hirsch

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I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

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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 inhere in poems alone.

~Edward Hirsch

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The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

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My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.

~Edward Hirsch

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In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 20th, 1950

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