Edward Hirsch Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Source, Process

  Edward Hirsch (2014). “A Poet's Glossary”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Blood, Hands

• Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Space, Giving

  "Poet's Choice", www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2006.

• The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Justice, Want

  "The Question of Affirmation and Despair". Interview with Tod Marshall in Kenyon Review, Volume 22, No. 2 (pp. 54-69), 2000.

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