Singing School Quotes

“God’s Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And, for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
― Robert Pinsky, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

“The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pleasure and awe." ~ Robert Pinsky, Singing School, 2013”
― Robert Pinsky, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters

“Walter Ralegh’s “Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk” (p. 100):”
― Robert Pinsky, Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters