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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.
Robert Hass
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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
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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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My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.
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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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As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - practically no one could read or write. And even in New England, the overall rate was only about 60 percent. That still means four out of 10 people couldn't put their name to a will.
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The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
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If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.
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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
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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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Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
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Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.
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[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.
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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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Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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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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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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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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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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I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.
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