Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.
Robert PinskyRead
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Sometimes our deepest insights and feelings are difficult to articulate, yet they hold great significance.
This quote by Robert Pinsky highlights the notion that meaningful ideas and emotions often arise instinctively, without immediate logical reasoning or justification. It emphasizes the value of intuition and the importance of acknowledging those feelings, even if they remain inarticulate or unclear at first glance. The ability to recognize genuine thoughts and beliefs prior to fully understanding them is an essential aspect of personal growth and self-discovery.
Themes
InsightIntuitionIdeasFeelingsSelf-Discovery
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about trusting your feelings and instincts.
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All quotes βThe 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.
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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.
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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.
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'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 your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.
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