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Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

American Poet

Born: Jan 20, 1950

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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. Edward Hirsch

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You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts. Edward Hirsch

You Sum Something More Make Parts Always Than Trying

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me. Edward Hirsch

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There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God. Edward Hirsch

God Think Finding Poems Am Lot Any Where

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost. Edward Hirsch

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

School Kid High High School Read Lot

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

Vocation Poetry Calling Career

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

Machinery Poems Like Human Warmth

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. Edward Hirsch

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