Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Edward Hirsch
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  2. Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED. - Mandy Hale

  3. Most of us have nicknames–annoying, endearing, embarrassing. But what about your true name? to respond when called. Ever wonder why?. - Vera Nazarian

  4. The voice of the archangel is the trumpet call of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

  5. Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly. - Sunday Adelaja

More Quotes By Edward Hirsch
  1. Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

  2. I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not in sight Because there is no mountaintop Poor Sisyphus grief I did not know I would struggle Through a ragged underbrush...

  3. If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is...

  4. Why did the sun rise this morning It's not natural I don't want to see the light It's not time to close the casket Or say Kaddish for my son I've already buried two fathers With a mother to come Isn't that enough Lord who...

  5. Friedrich Rückert wrote 425 poems After his two youngest children Died from scarlet fever Within sixteen days of each other In 1833 and 1834 he could not cope And often thought they had gone out For a while "they'll be home soon" He told himself...

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