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title: "2 Stanford Quotes By Robert Hass"
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> [When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vague ambition of becoming a writer and I was trying to write poems and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/when-i-applied-to-stanford-i-applied-for-graduate-work-in-the-phd/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ce/robert-hass-3548_ambition_when-i-applied-to-stanford-i-applied-for_1424427.png)

> [When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/when-i-was-in-high-school-in-the-50s-you-were-supposed-to-be-an-elvis/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/robert-hass-3548_brando_when-i-was-in-high-school-in-the-50s-you_2558824.jpg)

## Other authors on Stanford

## More by Robert Hass

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/it-s-the-same-with-this-idea-of-a-literate-public-and-also-of-a/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/all-the-new-thinking-is-about-loss-in-this-it-resembles-all-the-old/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/poetry-when-it-takes-sides-when-it-proposes-solutions-isn-t-any/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/when-i-was-in-college-i-lost-my-scholarship-one-year-i-had-enough/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/as-poet-laureate-i-was-asked-to-be-a-spokesman-for-literature/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/after-pope-in-the-beginning-of-romanticism-people-developed-the-idea/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/they-are-the-kinds-of-things-that-make-us-a-community-attachment-to/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/i-think-that-were-i-in-the-middle-of-an-obsession-to-write-about-say/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/i-suppose-there-s-something-to-be-said-for-the-sheer-reinforcement-of/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/if-you-were-making-poetry-out-of-convictions-trying-to-convince-other/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/milton-was-the-first-person-who-really-experimented-with-putting/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/when-i-came-into-the-job-funding-for-the-humanities-at-the-federal/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/one-may-prefer-spring-and-summer-to-autumn-and-winter-but-preference/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and everything dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/a-faint-music-by-robert-hass-maybe-you-need-to-write-a-poem-about/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

> [“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/when-everything-broken-is-broken-and-everything-dead-is-dead-and-the/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

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