"It's hell writing and it's hell not writing.……" — Robert Hass

"It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written."

— Robert Hass

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28 Quotes by Robert Hass

Robert Hass has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A word is elegy to what it signifies.
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.
It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
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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More Hell Quotes

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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is. — Bea Arthur
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was… — David Attenborough
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got… — Christian Bale
I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an… — Christian Bale
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. — Edward Abbey
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. — Charles Barkley
If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley

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