Century Quote by Robert Hass

“Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.” quote by Robert Hass — Download Open image

“Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Century Crucial Firsts Poet Poetry Translations Twenties Vivid

More by Robert Hass

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

Image

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

Robert Hass

Image

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

Robert Hass

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

Image

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

Robert Hass

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

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

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

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

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

Image

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

Robert Hass

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

Image

Explore all 128 Robert Hass quotes

More Century quotes

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

Anonymous

Image

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking…

Pico Iyer

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Anonymous

Image

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

Image

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

George Orwell

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

Kevin Maney

Image

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been…

James A. Garfield

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

Ida B. Wells

Image

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

Phil Zimmermann

Image

While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

Barbara Tuchman