Quotes by Robert Pinsky

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.

Art

Feelings

Promise

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Autobiography

Genre

Notorious

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Identity

Memories

Who We Are

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

Death

Holocaust

Ornaments

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet’s voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

Differences

Reading

Voice

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Jazz

Play

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 things come to see.

Brightness

Language

Memorable

My devils and angels, fears and hopes, insights and stupidities, loves and loathings, are what they are. I don’t edit them out so much as try to make them interesting – whether I am talking to you, or writing a poem, or joking with my kids, or speaking on television.

Angel

Kids

Writing

My poems – like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching – these things express who I am. I don’t feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.

Responsibility

Teaching

Who I Am

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 which are included in the narrative.

Kings

Language

Narrative

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Air

Angel

Art

Audacity

Autobiography

Brightness

Cathartic

Children

Dancing

Death

Differences

Feelings

Genre

Health

Holocaust

Identity

Jazz

Kids

Kings

Language

Light

Loss

Made

Memorable

Memories

Narrative

Notorious

Ordinary

Ornaments

Paper

Play

Promise

Reading

Responsibility

Roof

Sound

Strong

Teaching

Voice

Who I Am

Who We Are

Writing

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Quotes by Robert Pinsky

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.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

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

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet’s voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

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 brightness wherein all things come to see.

My devils and angels, fears and hopes, insights and stupidities, loves and loathings, are what they are. I don’t edit them out so much as try to make them interesting – whether I am talking to you, or writing a poem, or joking with my kids, or speaking on television.

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 which are included in the narrative.

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