Robert Pinsky Quotes

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

Robert Pinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

John Goodman

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Andre Gide

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I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

Amy Bloom

TimeWritingBelieveThinkFeel

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

Michael Mina

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I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.

Julia Child

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The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

Jason Chaffetz

ChangeSolutionYouWantPersonal

I'm into sounds, man.

Dimebag Darrell

ManSounds

If no producer, no movie.

Dino De Laurentiis

ProducerMovie

Put 'Cowboy' on every card. I'd be ready to go.

Donald Cerrone

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There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

Clint Eastwood

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My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

Ariel Sharon

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Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Anthony Weiner

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