Edward Hirsch: Poetry

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“Poetry is a form of necessary speech.”

Edward Hirsch

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

“Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.”

Edward Hirsch

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

“There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.”

Edward Hirsch

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

“The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry.. it paces the poem.”

Edward Hirsch

'Five points' vol 4 no 2 Georgia State University Press Winter 2000

Way , Thinking

“For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.”

Edward Hirsch

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

Art , History

“Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.”

Edward Hirsch

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

Waiting