The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.
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.
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.
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. - Robert Pinsky
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
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…
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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