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"I am very interested in memorization which is the process of incorporating a poem, so, I would say the kind of poetry I write is the kind that emphasises the physical qualities of the words."
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Robert PinskyAn artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, — Robert Pinsky
"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."
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Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work has earned numerous accolades. Pinsky is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate writing program at Boston University. In 2015, the university named him a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Profe
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"Poetry is a vocal art for me, not neccessarilyperformative, it might be reading to one self or recalling some lines by memory.The speaker bringing their own experience to it,changing it with their own sensibility."
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"I think what holds a poem like this together for me, if it’s held together, is largely meter; this one is in iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter whatever else it is, can be a very good glue. It is a very good way to hold things together. It’s like 4:4 you know."
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"Poetry is the most bodliy of arts, the medium of poetry is the column of breath rising from the diaphragm in the individuals chest to be shaped into meaning sounds inside the mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem."
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"Part of making a poem is a process of day- dreaming."
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"All the mysteries of consciousness flower in the body."
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