“If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to...” — Robert Pinsky Quote

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

“Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.”

“For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.”

“If it's good art, it's good.”

“Anything can be art but very little is good art.”

“The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.”