Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. Robert Pinsky Read Quote
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family – was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there’s a lot I loved in television. Robert Pinsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is ‘actual song.’ That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself – it’s a little bit like singing, it’s a little bit like speaking. Robert Pinsky Read Quote
I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play. Robert Pinsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure. Robert Pinsky Read Quote
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted ‘Most Literary Boy.’ I can assure you I was not voted ‘Mostly Likely to Succeed.’ I was voted ‘Most Musical Boy.’ And the music led to the poetry. Robert Pinsky Read Quote
If you want to make films, you’ll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that’s going on out there. Robert Pinsky Read Quote
