“Implicit in poetry is the notion that we are deepened by heartbreaks, that we are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish—to let others vanish—without leaving a verbal record.”
Edward Hirsch
I came across this quote yesterday when a FB friend posted it. I think it comes from “Poetry, Prayer, and Process: Edward Hirsch and Rachel Eliza Griffiths In Conversation” posted June 26, 2014 on the Academy of American Poets site. I’ll have to listen to the entire conversation.
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