A Quote by Edward Hirsch
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
People represent their constituencies and have particular interests based on who they are and the experiences that have formed them. You don't have to be a child to be an advocate for children. You don't have to be a woman to be an advocate for women. You don't have to be Hispanic to be an advocate for Hispanics.
Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.
Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly.
I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.
Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...
My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.
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