My devils and angels, fears and hopes, insights and stupidities, loves and loathings, are what they are. I don't edit them out so much as try to make them interesting - whether I am talking to you, or writing a poem, or joking with my kids, or speaking on television.
Robert PinskyPoetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
Robert PinskyWhatever 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.
Robert Pinsky