Robert Pinsky Quotes

This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and depr...

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a socia...

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And th...

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at t...

From an essay on early reading by Robert Pinsky:My favorite reading for many years was the "Alice" b...

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, ...

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-scho...

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear ...

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style,...