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Robert Hass quotes

American Poet March 1, 1941

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Robert Hass quote: "Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an..."
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. Robert Hass
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say,... Robert Hass
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. Robert Hass
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it. 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. 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
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Robert Hass
Robert Hass quote: "It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us."
It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. Robert Hass
Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it. Robert Hass
Robert Hass quote: "All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all..."
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking. Robert Hass
Robert Hass quote: "Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of..."
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. Robert Hass
Robert Hass quote: "It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising."
It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising. Robert Hass
Robert Hass quote: "It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only..."
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. Robert Hass
The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery. Robert Hass
Robert Hass quote: "Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no..."
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. Robert Hass

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