Edward Hirsch Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

• Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

  Edward Hirsch

  Giving, Religion, Doe

• You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Giving, Feelings

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

• It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Order, Space

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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