Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the… — 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 Image
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
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 Image
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