Afternoon Quote by Robert Hass

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“Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.”

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

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Honestly, I'm living my fantasy. It's being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing…

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Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

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“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”

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At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A…

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The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the…

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Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400…

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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