"It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant…" — Robert Hass
"It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us."
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28 Quotes by Robert Hass
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- A word is elegy to what it signifies.
- It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
- Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
- One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns,…
- Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
- Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
- Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet
- The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
- All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
- I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going…
- The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
- The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior…
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