About Robert Hass
Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Notable works:
Into The Garden
Awards:
National Book Award|Guggenheim Fellowship|MacArthur Fellows Program|Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|National Book Award for Poetry|Wallace Stevens Award|PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay|Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism|National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry|National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
All Robert Hass Quotes
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Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it…
Both
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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Desire
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Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
Afternoon
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You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of…
All
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As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
Asked
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I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry…
Continue
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There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying…
Afternoon
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In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like…
Air
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