Asked Quote by Robert Hass Download Open image “As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.” — Robert Hass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asked Books Laureate Literature Poet Poetry Spokesman
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it. (On being… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At… — John Steinbeck 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 time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about… — Robert Hass Copy Share
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
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers. — Cathy Moriarty Copy Share Image
I've been so lucky with the people I've worked with, but I'm such a fan girl. When I moved to London at 16, I… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
For me to even be talking about bikini confidence is crazy. If you had asked me a couple of months ago, I probably would… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.'… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was… — April Winchell Copy Share Image
Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
