Art Quote by Robert Hass

“I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.” quote by Robert Hass — Download Open image

“I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.”

Robert Hass

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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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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…

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

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