Robert Pinsky Quote

It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body, one at a time, in a particular order.


Poetry and the World, Ecco Press,1988


It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body, one at a time, in a particular order.

It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body, one at a time, in a particular order.

It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body, one at a time, in a particular order.

It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body, one at a time, in a particular order.