Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.'… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“A reflection on Robert Lowell Robert Lowell knew I was not one of his devotees. I attended his famous “office hours” salon… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pleasure and awe." ~ Robert Pinsky,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march -… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…a good feeling about his art. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
“This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
“Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or even about… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share
