Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The love of books is for children who glimpse in them a life to come, but I have come to that life… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read… — Robert Hass Copy Share
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking — Robert Hass Copy Share
Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. — Robert Hass Copy Share
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I… — Robert Hass Copy Share
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its… — Robert Hass Copy Share
They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature,… — Robert Hass Copy Share
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or… — Robert Hass Copy Share
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment… — Robert Hass Copy Share
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that… — Robert Hass Copy Share
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of… — Robert Hass Copy Share
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in… — Robert Hass Copy Share
“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and everything dead… — Robert Hass Copy Share
“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine… — Robert Hass Copy Share
![“The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/robert-hass-3548_closest_the-poem-that-comes-closest-to-saying-wh_2774432.jpg)
