Edward Hirsch Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry. One is dreams, and the other is childhood. I think childhood is an inexhaustible source of your becoming who you will be and certain deep feelings are set inside of you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Dream, Thinking, Two

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

• A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  Childhood, Alive, Emotion

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

• I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Lyric Poetry, Ideas

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

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