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Robert Pinsky quotes: Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after theholocaustThe wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Pinsky quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Pinsky quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

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

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

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

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

Robert Pinsky quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Poetry's medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

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

Robert Pinsky quotes: Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

Robert Pinsky quotes: The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

Robert Pinsky quotes: In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me.