“From an essay on early reading by Robert Pinsky: My favorite reading for many years was the "Alice" books. The sentences had the same somber, drugged conviction as Sir John Tenniel's illustrations, an inexplicable, shadowy dignity that reminded me of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem… — 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 Image
'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 Image
