Edward Hirsch Quotes

The audience, that's who I care about.

I'm just trying to matter.

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

Language cares.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

Dance should mean something to you.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.

I know that sometimes you have to reason with yourself and say, "This is just TV" or "This is just a movie," but I think also as an actor it's your job to find it so very important.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.