I was never able to pray but let me inscribe my name in the… - Edward Hirsch

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I was never able to pray
but let me inscribe my name
in the book of waves.

Edward Hirsch

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

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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.

The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem.

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

I was never able to pray but let me inscribe my name in the book of waves. - Edward Hirsch

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