Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
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, to hum it to yourself.… - 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, to hum it to yourself.…
- Robert Pinsky
Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are. - Robert Pinsky
Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. - 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
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong i… - Robert Pinsky
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong i…
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… - Robert Pinsky
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…
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university. - Robert Pinsky
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies. - Robert Pinsky
The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.
Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. - Robert Pinsky
Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.
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