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Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Casual Experience Frame Helps Intense Mind Poetry Process Start Writing

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I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Human Like Machinery Poems Warmth

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I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Back Ballads Been Both Different Each Each Time Fascinated Ideally Meaning Over Poem Refrain Same Say Think Time Way Work Works Years

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'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Brass Each Interrupted Liberty Machine Meant Part Progression Refrain Relentless Sign Single Small Unfolds Wave Which Work

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Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Been Commitment Failed His Lost Marginal Most Most Powerful Philip Powerful Throughout Unloved Unwanted Work

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The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Bittersweet Nostalgia Portuguese Profoundly Term

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Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Beings Completed Human Human Beings Once Other Poems Send Them World Write Writers You Your

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Fresh or changing conditions ferment fresh forms.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Changing Conditions Forms Fresh

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 20th, 1950

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