"I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up."

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She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.

— Edward Hirsch