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 PinskyTo talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
Robert PinskyFor Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.
Robert PinskyIn the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.
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 PinskyMy poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.
Robert Pinsky