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All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  You , Work , Day , Morning


I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  Work , Poetry , Place , Calm


Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  Only , Laws , Addiction , Anarchy


The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  Think , Good , Easy , Trust


Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  You , Live , Problems , Art


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

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  You , Good , Art , Try


The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  Music , You , Style , Architecture


I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  Love , Me , Never , Not Interested


The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  Animal , You , Best , Poetry


I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Author: Robert Pinsky - American Poet
  Think , Art , Human , Intelligence


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