Robert Pinsky Quotes & Sayings
28 most famous Robert Pinsky quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.”
“Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.”
“All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.”
“For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.”
“I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.”
“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. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.”
“Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.”
“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.”
“If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.”
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