Author: 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

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

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

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

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

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