"Poetryâ€™s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem."

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Robert Pinsky

#Mouths Quotes #Individual Quotes #Throat Quotes

“Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.”
“Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.”
“My history's not very good, but did David win?”
“That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.”
“Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.”
“You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.”
“I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.”
“What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.”

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