Author: Robert Hass

Quotes

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

- Robert Hass

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

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

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

- 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.

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

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

- Robert Hass

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