Clarinet Quote by Robert Pinsky

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march -…

— Robert Pinsky

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

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

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

— Robert Pinsky

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

“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

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

— Robert Pinsky

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

— Robert Pinsky

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

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

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

'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