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Robert Pinsky Quotes

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 20, 1940

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Art Poetry Memory Me Reading Lines

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

Voting President Old Republican Ever

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Eyes Man Mountain Mouth Prime Like

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Speak Wrong Well Terrible

Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.

Children People Regret Story Think

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

Mother Teacher School Child House

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

School High School Studying High

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

Yourself I Am Start You Find More

I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters.

Women Think Reason Because Working

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Forward You Everything Move Cannot

The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.

Lloyd Blankfein

Today Day Thought Long Every Day

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Health Time Fitness People World

Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

Life Moment Language Hold Center

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