Edward Hirsch quotes

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. (Edward Hirsch)
The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table. View quote
Edward Hirsch
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text. View quote
Edward Hirsch
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. View quote
Edward Hirsch