Latest Robert Pinsky Quotes from Interviews

• My devils and angels, fears and hopes, insights and stupidities, loves and loathings, are what they are. I don't edit them out so much as try to make them interesting - whether I am talking to you, or writing a poem, or joking with my kids, or speaking on television.

  Robert Pinsky

  Writing, Kids, Angel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.

  Robert Pinsky

  Teaching, Responsibility, Who I Am

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

  Robert Pinsky

  Sleep, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American adaptations of Buddhism terribly self-indulgent, silly, gooey in the way the English call "wet."

  Robert Pinsky

  Silly, Buddhism, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com