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Quotes from How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry — Edward Hirsch

born 1950 United States

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The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

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.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

Poetry is a form of necessary speech.

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Hirsch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.