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Robert Hass quotes: Ah, love, this is fear. This is fear and syllablesand the beginnings of beauty.

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

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

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

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

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

Robert Hass quotes: Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Hass quotes: August is dust here. Droughtstuns the road,but juice gathers in the berries.

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

Robert Hass quotes: The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

Robert Hass quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

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

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 quotes: Don't worry, spiders,I keep housecasually.

Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.

Robert Hass quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Hass quotes: Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Robert Hass quotes: 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.

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

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

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

The basis of art is change in the universe.

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

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

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

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

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