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 gif… - Edward Hirsch

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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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About Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch (born January 20, 1950), an American poet and critic.

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