Quotes by Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it’s a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.

Alive

Childhood

Emotion

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Kind

Looks

Perspective

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of ‘The Inferno,’ ‘The Divine Comedy,’ to help guide him through the underworld.

Comedy

Helping

Way

A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

Basketball

Kissing

Men

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

Hands

Prayer

Soul

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they’re not going to be able to find.

Able

Stress

Thinking

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather’s death and I thought my grandfather had written it.

Book

House

Names

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you’re a child. It’s not only a joyous wonder, it’s sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

Children

Grief

Sometimes

And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.

Autumn

Fall

Home

And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I got the idea that maybe that would be a somewhat bland title and I got the idea for wild gratitude, which I’m very proud of as a title. So, I think it works best when you find it in the process.

August

Gratitude

Thinking

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Able

Adventure

Age

Agony

Alive

America

Art

Attention

Audacity

August

Autumn

Aztec

Basketball

Beautiful

Blood

Body

Book

Bookstores

Boredom

Bottles

Brilliant

Brotherhood

Care

Careers

Character

Childhood

Children

Class

College

Comedy

Connections

Consistency

Country

Crafts

Creative

Creativity

Culture

Dark

Development

Different

Distance

Doe

Drama

Dream

Education

Eight

Emotion

Emotional

Ends

Energy

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Quotes by Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it’s a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of ‘The Inferno,’ ‘The Divine Comedy,’ to help guide him through the underworld.

A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they’re not going to be able to find.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you’re a child. It’s not only a joyous wonder, it’s sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I got the idea that maybe that would be a somewhat bland title and I got the idea for wild gratitude, which I’m very proud of as a title. So, I think it works best when you find it in the process.

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