Quote by Robert Pinsky Download Open image ““The heart grows brutal from feeding on fantasies.”” — Robert Pinsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Don't blame my heart's appetite for how it chooses to feast, for my heart is a wild lover, an all-consuming beast.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems like starving a hungry heart will make you stronger.” — Steven Stosny Copy Share Image
“There is a sort of ruthless love when the heart wishes for what the mind warns against.” — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The human heart is a wild and bruised beast and often acts accordingly.” — N.M. Kelby Copy Share Image
“If I do catch sight of my heart, I'm going to strangle the thing just to put it out of its misery.” — P. B. Kerr Copy Share Image
“The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.” — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
“The heart, it appears, doesn’t learn its lessons, avoid danger, run from confrontation, or walk away from disaster. The heart is the anarchist of… — Katie Ray Copy Share Image
“Every heart needed to contain stories that were too overwhelming to reveal to another human being.” — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“A pure heart faces the worst kind of evil in this world. But as it sleeps it's blessed, and it wakes up cleansed and… — Gregor Collins 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… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
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
