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I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
Life , People , Experience , Death

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
Depression , Feeling , Without , Mourning

Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
You , People , Age , Child

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
Poetry , Feeling , Night , Soul

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
You , Poetry , Trying , Dream

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
Work , Think , Great , Poetry

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
Writing , Poetry , Creative , University

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
Everything , Thought , Write , Young

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
You , Time , Start , Place

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Author: Edward Hirsch - American Poet
You , Think , Poetry , Television