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"Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution , a perception."
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Edward HirschPoetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized. — Edward Hirsch
"Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized."
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Edward Hirsch
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Edward M. Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together thirty-five years of work, and Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy for his son that The New Yorker called "a masterpiece of sorrow." He has also published five prose books
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"Poetry is a form of necessary speech."
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"The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation."
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"The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem."
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"For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds."
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"The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality."
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