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Poetry Quotes by Robert Pinsky
- 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,…
- Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.
- 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.
- 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.…
- Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by…
- Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise…
- Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden