Edward Hirsch Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path.

  Edward Hirsch

  Latin, Reading, Path

  Source: bigthink.com

• Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something that comes with age or that might come with age which has to do with reflecting on experience.

  Edward Hirsch

  Age, Literature, Might

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

• There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

  Edward Hirsch

  Needs, Literature, Places To Go

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

• I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  "Poets v. Prose Writers". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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