In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."
Edward HirschReading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
Edward HirschI would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.
Edward HirschThere's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.
Edward Hirsch