Robert Hass Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The basis of art is change in the universe.

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

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

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

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

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