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

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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
Literary Critic
Poet
Teacher
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University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Robert L. Hass
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Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.
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The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
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In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate.
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I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.
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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.
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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
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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.
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The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.
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What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.
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Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.
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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.
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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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There are either poems about sex/love or God.
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Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.
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I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.
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What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.
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If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.
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When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
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As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.
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There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.
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