Edward Hirsch Quotes - Page 6

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• The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

  Edward Hirsch

  Land, Hopeful, Holocaust

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

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• 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.

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