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As I drew nearer to the end of all desire..
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The forgetting I notice most as I get older is really a form of memory: The undergrowth of things unknown to you young, that I have forgotten.
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In the early winter dusk the broken city dark seeps from the tunnels.
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Pinsky explains why people love cliché.
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The lifers, Pinsky says, are the ones who write the best poetry.
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It is the medium on a human scale, Pinsky says.
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The distinction between poetry and rap lyrics lies in the performance.
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Any moment any person’s idea at any one moment, any artifact, if you could understand it well enough would be a portal into the whole rest of the universe.
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Who’s more famous, Elizabeth Bishop or Vaughn Monroe?
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“Nobody ever wrote sweeter poetry with a human voice” than the 16th and 17th-century poets.
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The former Poet Laureate describes how he knows a poem is finished.
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Mixing Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words is a delightful sensation, like mixing smooth and crunchy.
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Words have always fascinated Pinsky, though it was his failure as a saxophone player that finally pushed him into poetry.
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It would take four Russian novels to explain why Pinsky’s mother missed his bar mitzvah.
