Closest Quote 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

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

— Robert Hass

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

— Robert Hass

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

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

— Robert Hass

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

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

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or…

— 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

If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…

— Robert Hass

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

— Robert Hass

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