Samurai song by robert pinsky biography

          Robert Pinsky's 'Samurai Song' shows readers a daunting path to achieve fearlessness, mental peace, and most importantly, freedom from all kinds of suffering..

          FRIDAY, 20 OCTOBER, 2006
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          Poem: "Samurai Song" by Robert Pinsky, from Jersey Rain.

          Robert Pinsky is one of America's foremost poet-critics.

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          Samurai Song

          When I had no roof I made
          Audacity my roof. When I had
          No supper my eyes dined.

          When I had no eyes I listened.
          When I had no ears I thought.
          When I had no thought I waited.

          When I had no father I made
          Care my father.

          Biography: Robert Pinsky was born on October 20, in Long Branch, New Jersey.

        1. When I had no Enemy I opposed my body.
        2. Robert Pinsky's 'Samurai Song' shows readers a daunting path to achieve fearlessness, mental peace, and most importantly, freedom from all kinds of suffering.
        3. "Samurai Song" is a poem by Robert Pinsky, first published in in his collection titled "History of My Heart." The poem speaks of the samurai's way of.
        4. Robert Pinsky served as US Poet Laureate for three terms.

          5. When I had
          No mother I embraced order.

          When I had no friend I made
          Quiet my friend. When I had no
          Enemy I opposed my body.

          When I had no temple I made
          My voice my temple. I have
          No priest, my tongue is my choir.

          When I have no means fortune
          Is my means.

          When I have
          Nothing, death will be my fortune.

          Need is my tactic, detachment
          Is my strategy. When I had
          No lover I courted my sleep.

          Literary and Historical Notes:

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