Robert Pinsky

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Poet
Author
Professor
gptkbp:hasAwards gptkb:William_Carlos_Williams_Award
gptkb:Los_Angeles_Times_Book_Prize
U.S._Poet_Laureate
gptkbp:hasBirthDate 1940-10-20
gptkbp:hasChild gptkb:Dara_Pinsky
gptkb:Joshua_Pinsky
gptkbp:hasEducation gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkb:Wesleyan_University
gptkb:Long_Branch_High_School
gptkbp:hasGoals "Poetry is a way of being in the world."
"The poet is a man who speaks to the world."
"The best poems are the ones that make you feel something."
"I think of poetry as a kind of music."
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
gptkbp:hasInfluenceOn gptkb:John_Keats
gptkb:T.S._Eliot
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkb:Emily_Dickinson
gptkb:William_Carlos_Williams
gptkbp:hasNationality American
gptkbp:hasNotableWork gptkb:The_Poetry_Home_Repair_Manual
The Figured Wheel
An_Invitation_to_Poetry
gptkbp:hasOccupation gptkb:Poet
Translator
Literary_critic
gptkbp:hasResidence gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts
gptkb:New_Jersey
gptkbp:hasSpouse gptkb:Mimi_Pinsky
gptkbp:hasWebsite robertpinsky.com
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Robert Pinsky
gptkbp:isKnownFor His essays on poetry
Creating the Favorite Poem Project
Writing about the intersection of poetry and politics
His_translations_of_Dante's_Inferno
Promoting_poetry_in_American_culture