Robert Pinsky: Quotes about art

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“Each work of art generate its own rules”

Robert Pinsky

Singing School

Art

“Poetry is a vocal art for me, not neccessarilyperformative, it might be reading to one self or recalling some lines by memory. The speaker bringing their own experience to it, changing it with their own sensibility.”

Robert Pinsky

The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz

Art , Memory , Change , Reading

“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

Poetry and the World, Ecco Press,1988

Art , Feeling

“Poetry is the most bodliy of arts, the medium of poetry is the column of breath rising from the diaphragm in the individual's chest to be shaped into meaning sounds inside the mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.”

Robert Pinsky

The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz

Art