Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
Edward HirschAnd when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.
Edward HirschThere are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.
Edward HirschI think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.
Edward Hirsch