Edward Hirsch Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in which a young poet goes through the program, publishes a series of books, gets teaching jobs, that's a bit at risk.

  Edward Hirsch

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

  Source: bigthink.com

• Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Knowledge, Consistency

• After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather's death and I thought my grandfather had written it.

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Names, House

  Source: bigthink.com

• In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance.

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Writing, Epic

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

• There 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 Hirsch

  Book, Firsts, Use

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Class, Pearls

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

• And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, "Wild Gratitude," and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title "August 13th."

  Edward Hirsch

  Gratitude, Book, August

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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