Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be v… - Edward Hirsch

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

Edward Hirsch

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

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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.

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

Poetry is a form of necessary speech.

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

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