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I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I’m not like that at all.

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Robert Pinsky

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Aromas, Shades, Sleep, Sleeping, Thinking, Together
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Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Air, Breath, Deep, Light, Merely, Ordinary

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

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A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.

Emotional, Heart, Hum, Imagination, Intellectual, Memorable

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Decide, Deciding, Identity, Memories, Remember, Who We Are

The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.

Air, Human, Motion, Sound, Voice
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