Poetic Language Quotes by Robert Pinsky

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• Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.
• To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
• A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say…
• When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.
• Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.
• An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about…
• Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
• In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.
• In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the…
• The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx…
• Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator…
• The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

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