Robert Pinsky Quotes

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

Robert Pinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveMyselfI AmMeSingingSong

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

Jesse Lee Soffer

ThinkMediaFirstPlayingResponders

Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

Max McKeown

ChangeFutureChoicesBelieveMust

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Matthew Henry

ElephantWhereDrownWouldLamb

Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.

Jean-Claude Juncker

WrongEuropeSomethingBrexitMeans

As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.

Michael Connelly

WeekendCrimeRightEverythingOut

I think I've got to go back to 'Someone to Watch Over Me.' I think it's a perfectly written song. I really do. I think it's one of the great songs in the American Songbook, and it speaks to love in its simplest and purest form.

Rob McClure

LoveGreatMeSongThinkAmerican

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.

Lisa Jewell

MotherChildrenChildhoodStoryAsk

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

Jose Ramos-Horta

IntegrityTogetherPeopleThreeSide

In the military, we can only do so much. The reality of it is if someone... really wants to make an impact on national security and the military as a whole... the person that has the ability to do that most is a knowledgeable civilian leader.

Jon Keyser

LeaderRealityImpactSomeonePerson

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

David Walliams

HeartFootballMenMeTalkingTaxi

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

David Wells

MyselfMeBlameYouWantMore

Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.

Antoine Fuqua

WorkHeartYouActingActorTell

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