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Edward Hirsch Quotes about Art

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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical,

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.

Edward Hirsch
Art, Space, Giving
"Poet's Choice", www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2006.

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

Edward Hirsch
Art, Blood, Hands

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

Edward Hirsch
Art, Source, Process
Edward Hirsch (2014). “A Poet's Glossary”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

Edward Hirsch
Art, Justice, Want
"The Question of Affirmation and Despair". Interview with Tod Marshall in Kenyon Review, Volume 22, No. 2 (pp. 54-69), 2000.

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