Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

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• Robert Pinsky:

  If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

• Robert Pinsky:

  The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style

• Robert Pinsky:

  I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important,

• Robert Pinsky:

  I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina

• Robert Pinsky:

  The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Se

• Robert Pinsky:

  I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at

• Robert Pinsky:

  If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghe

• Robert Pinsky:

  When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating

• Robert Pinsky:

  Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And t

• Robert Pinsky:

  Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.