Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. Robert Pinsky autobiographyfalsehoodgenre Change image and share on social
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them. Robert Pinsky feelformulateidea Change image and share on social
Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily. Robert Pinsky artenablelive Change image and share on social
If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular. Robert Pinsky clarinetdancerfeel Change image and share on social
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. Robert Pinsky americanartautomatic share on social
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. Robert Pinsky answerbeginday share on social
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. Robert Pinsky closecosmopolitandeer share on social
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things. Robert Pinsky arcaneartbring share on social