"Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The……" — Robert Hass
"Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully."
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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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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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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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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more…
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