Robert Pinsky Quotes

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.

Robert Pinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.

John Mica

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When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

Andy Stern

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For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

Sonam Kapoor

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I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

Travie McCoy

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I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

Ronnie Milsap

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I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt.

Mona Eltahawy

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My dad gave up his job; he stopped working - for me. Without that, I definitely wouldn't be as successful.

Chloe Kim

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I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

Christopher Meloni

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To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example. America don't care nothing about human rights.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Alice Walker

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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Alfred Stieglitz

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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

William Law

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