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Ah, love, this is fear. This is fear and syllables
and the beginnings of beauty. — Robert Hass

Some live for love more than others. And he experienced a death that night. — Andrew Holleran

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery. — Robert Hass

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. — Robert Hass

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free. — Robert Hass

It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising. — Robert Hass

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. — Robert Hass

Junk food nurtures the spirit. I think there's scientific research to prove it. — Suzanne Johnson

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

August is dust here. Drought
stuns the road,
but juice gathers in the berries. — Robert Hass

The Earth forgives the previous year every year. — Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large. — Robert Hass

Writing is an incessant process of discovery. — Robert Hass

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school. — Robert Hass

The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country. — Joe Arpaio

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet — Robert Hass

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter. — Robert Hass

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye. — Stephen King

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

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. — Robert Hass

The basis of art is change in the universe. — Robert Hass

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

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. — Robert Hass

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid. — Brad Goreski

All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. — Carolyn Parkhurst

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. — Pablo Picasso

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom. — Dick Gregory

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too — Robert Hass

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. — 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 camped in the hills. — Robert Hass

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. — Robert Hass

She's got the American boy in there! — Cody Young

Attitude is a decision, and it is also a learned behavior, requiring discipline and energy to sustain. — Jim Afremow

Focus on eating real, whole, natural foods. As I love to say, if you can pick it, pluck it, milk it, or shoot it, you can eat it! — Suzanne Somers

To build yourself is to add value to your life — Sunday Adelaja

Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually. — Robert Hass