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The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.

The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.

Robert Pinsky
Believe, Love Is, Voice
Bomb Magazine, Summer 1998.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

Robert Pinsky
Reality, University, Reality Of Life

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

Robert Pinsky
Kings, Narrative, Language

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

Robert Pinsky
Death, Holocaust, Ornaments
Robert Pinsky (2014). “History of My Heart: Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

Robert Pinsky
Breathing, Vision, Cadence

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