Quote of the Day (Edward Hirsch, on a ‘Boy With a Headset’)

“He is a fifteen-year-old in the city—no more, no less—
but I imagine him as a colorful unnamed bird
warbling his difference from the robins and sparrows
and scissoring past the vendors on every corner.”—American poet Edward Hirsch, “Boy With a Headset,” The New Yorker, Oct. 8, 2004

(Photo of Edward Hirsch taken by Michael Lionstar.)

Quote of the Day (Edward Hirsch, on “My Heart and My Head”)

“I lived between my heart and my head,
like a married couple who can’t get along.”—Edward Hirsch, “Self-Portrait,” in The New Yorker, October 18, 2005