Edward Hirsch Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Adventure, Creative

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Television Watching, Intellectual

• I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other poems that were written by other people, when I had tried to integrate my reading and my writing I was on my path.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Writing, People

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

• Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Odds, Crafts

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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

• And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Past, Bottles

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

• When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Secret, Reader

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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