Robert Pinsky Quotes - Page 2

• The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.

  Robert Pinsky

  Believe, Love Is, Voice

  Bomb Magazine, Summer 1998.

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

  Robert Pinsky

  Reality, University, Reality Of Life

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• Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

  Robert Pinsky

  Kings, Narrative, Language

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

  Robert Pinsky

  Death, Holocaust, Ornaments

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “History of My Heart: Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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• For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

  Robert Pinsky

  Breathing, Vision, Cadence

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