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Robert Pinsky Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: ‘Everybody is different.’ Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way Picture Quote #1

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state Picture Quote #1

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted ‘Most Literary Boy.’ I can assure you I was not voted ‘Mostly Likely to Succeed.’ I was voted ‘Most Musical Boy.’ And the music led to the poetry Picture Quote #1

I don’t like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, ‘The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,’ almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges Picture Quote #1

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody Picture Quote #1

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Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy Picture Quote #1

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn’t taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things Picture Quote #1

When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there’s a lot I loved in television Picture Quote #1

For an American, there’s no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There’s not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there’s a snob value to the art Picture Quote #1

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood Picture Quote #1

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily Picture Quote #1

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Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are Picture Quote #1

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated Picture Quote #1

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts Picture Quote #1

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof Picture Quote #1

An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar Picture Quote #1

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The poetry I love is written with someone’s voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone’s voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified Picture Quote #1

Poetry’s medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath Picture Quote #1

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them Picture Quote #1

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me Picture Quote #1

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem Picture Quote #1

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: ‘Everybody is different.’ Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted ‘Most Literary Boy.’ I can assure you I was not voted ‘Mostly Likely to Succeed.’ I was voted ‘Most Musical Boy.’ And the music led to the poetry. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) I don’t like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, ‘The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,’ almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy (Robert Pinsky Quotes) For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn’t taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there’s a lot I loved in television. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) For an American, there’s no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There’s not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there’s a snob value to the art. (Robert Pinsky Quotes) Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood (Robert Pinsky Quotes) Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily (Robert Pinsky Quotes) Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are (Robert Pinsky Quotes) There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated (Robert Pinsky Quotes) The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies (Robert Pinsky Quotes) Poetry is the most bodily of the arts (Robert Pinsky Quotes) When I had no roof I made audacity my roof (Robert Pinsky Quotes) An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar (Robert Pinsky Quotes) The poetry I love is written with someone’s voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone’s voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified (Robert Pinsky Quotes) Poetry’s medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath (Robert Pinsky Quotes) Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them (Robert Pinsky Quotes) If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it (Robert Pinsky Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Robert Pinsky Quotes) 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. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing (Robert Pinsky Quotes) 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 (Robert Pinsky Quotes) 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 Quotes) Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem (Robert Pinsky Quotes) To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university (Robert Pinsky Quotes)