All Robert Pinsky Quotes
- Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are. Decide
- To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university. Inspirational
- A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way,… Beginning
- When I had no roof I made audacity my roof. Audacity
- Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. Art
- 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. Answer
- Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. Chest
- In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me. Always Appealed
- In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all… Ability
- The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.… Air
- Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has… Assemblage
- The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies. Brutal
- Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of… Accepted
- There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated. Absolute
- Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. Air
- I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or… Art
- Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them. Feel
- Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by… Art
- Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. Autobiography
- Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. Addiction