And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."
Edward HirschI think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.
Edward HirschI think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.
Edward Hirsch