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Robert Pinsky - From the Art category:
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Artists category:
Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Fashion category:
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Frustration category:
I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Health category:
There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Ideas category:
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Imitation category:
If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Importance category:
I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Methodology category:
Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Pleasure category:
If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Questions category:
All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Rhythm category:
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Spontaneity category:
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure. (Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky - From the Studio category:
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)
Robert Pinsky - From the Writing category:
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' (Robert Pinsky)
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