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I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

~Edward Hirsch

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It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

~Edward Hirsch

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The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

~Edward Hirsch

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I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Advocate Happy Poetry

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I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: High High School Kid Lot Read School

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I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

~Edward Hirsch

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The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.

~Edward Hirsch

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Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Always Celebrated Deepest Emotions Grief Human Human Emotions Poets

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Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

~Edward Hirsch

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I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Adventure Anywhere Foot Heading Love Off Out Setting Sheer Somewhere Taking Walk I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 20th, 1950

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