"An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art."

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Source : "Poetry and the World". Book by Robert Pinsky, 1988.

Robert Pinsky

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“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”
“I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.”
“My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.”
“It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.”
“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”
“All Satan's Apples Have Worms. I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms.”
“Never take what's offered, always ask for more.”

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