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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Robert Hass
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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
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Robert L. Hass
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Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.
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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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One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.
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Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.
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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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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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If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.
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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
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Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.
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Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
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If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I have that principle or not.
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You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
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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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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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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.
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I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.
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I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.
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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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