"Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends."

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Source : Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Edward Hirsch

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“For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.”
“The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.”
“Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords.”
“They always win who side with God.”
“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”
“I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.”
“There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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