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Robert Pinsky Quotes: Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.
         

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.


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Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.



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When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.



Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.



If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.



The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.



There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.



In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.



Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.



I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.



Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.





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