Robert Pinsky Quotes: top 29 famous quotes about Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Robert Pinsky quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song" Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL — Cheryl Strayed

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
holocaust
The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. — Robert Pinsky

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it. — Robert Pinsky

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university. — Robert Pinsky

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. — Stephen Covey

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak. — Louis De Bernieres

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them. — Robert Pinsky

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond ... a good feeling about his art. — Robert Pinsky

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous. — Garth Nix

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are. — Robert Pinsky

For though, I walk through the valley of shadows of Death, I will never fear. For You are in Me and I know You will never let me Go. — Jestoni Revealed

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily. — Robert Pinsky

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. — Robert Pinsky

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

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. — Robert Pinsky

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. — Robyn Davidson

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. — Robert Pinsky

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet. — Julia Glass

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. — Robert Pinsky

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

Poetry's medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. — Robert Pinsky

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies. — Robert Pinsky

None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was. — Alexander Chee

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other. — Lionel Sosa

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't. — Diane Von Furstenberg

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory
and success. — George W. Bush

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