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Edward Hirsch

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American poet

Person · Open Library

Works
56

Top works

  • Organized labor and the saloon
  • Poet in New York
  • My Childhood in Pieces
  • Night Music
  • Theodore Roethke

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1946-02-28
Active to
2011-11-24
austrian

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
531
Total plays
1,002

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Quotes

  • The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem.
  • Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
  • 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.
  • There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.
  • For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.
  • The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.

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