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I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Always Chicago Come Deal Great Great Deal Landscape Me Meant Midwest

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There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: About Child Felt Having He Know Like Losing People Really Something Unnatural Wanted Write Your Your Child

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As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

~Edward Hirsch

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Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Accompanies Aura Both Creation Elements Form Honor Irrational Necessary Poetic Poetry Practice Rational Restore Sacred Sought Speech True

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Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Connect Deeply Difficulty Even Feel Fully Inspire Links Listeners Many Meant More Notorious Odd Off Others People Poetry Put Readers Terms Them Themselves Vocabulary

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The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

~Edward Hirsch

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There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Always Cultures Distinguished Just Just One Literacy Many Music One Word Origins Other Poetry Remembers Song Still Them Tribal Where Word

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The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

~Edward Hirsch

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When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.

~Edward Hirsch

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One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Captures Carries Deep Distinguishes Feeling Few Get Itself Kind Number One Of The Things Ordinary Poetry Rhythm Some Speech Things Very Way Words

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 20th, 1950

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