"Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it……" — Robert Hass
"Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly."
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28 Quotes by Robert Hass
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A word is elegy to what it signifies.
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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
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One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns,…
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Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
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It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
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Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet
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The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
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All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going…
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The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
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The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior…
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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