Writer Quotes by Robert Hass

8 Writer quotes by Robert Hass

Robert Hass’s eight reflections on writing reveal a poet’s attention to rhythm and image. This short set offers a concise glimpse into his view of language as a living, breathing entity.

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I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

Robert Hass

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My first book was published when I was thirty-two, so I think it was basically finished when I was thirty or thirty-one.…

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“The love of books is for children who glimpse in them a life to come, but I have come to that life…

Robert Hass

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Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Robert Hass

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me,…

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The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high…

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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

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Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

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As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

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After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its…

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They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature,…

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I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or…

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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…

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If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…

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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

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When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of…

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One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in…

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“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine…

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