Robert Hass Quotes

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• A word is elegy to what it signifies.
• It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
• Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the…
• Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
• It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
• Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
• Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet
• The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
• All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
• I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the…
• The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
• The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
• When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped…
• Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
• 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…
• What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a…
• Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love…
• Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a…

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