Robert Pinsky Quotes

Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, Dante Alighieri's Inferno and The Separate Notebooks by Czesław Miłosz. He teaches at Boston University.



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✵ 20. October 1940
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Famous Robert Pinsky Quotes

“All the mysteries of consciousness flower in the body.”

The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz

“Each work of art generate its own rules”

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Robert Pinsky Quotes

“Every word is an abstraction or category, not a particular.”

The Situation of Poetry - Contemporary Poetry and its Traditions Princeton University Press 1976
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“No aspect of a poem is more singular, more unique, than its rhythm.”

'The Sounds of Poetry' Farrar,Strauss & Giroux 1998
The Sounds of Poetry 1998

“The poet is a particular kind of expert.”

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“Part of making a poem is a process of day- dreaming.”

Singing School -Learning to Write (and read) Poetry W W Norton, New York 2013
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