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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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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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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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There are either poems about sex/love or God.
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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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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.
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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
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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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If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.
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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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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
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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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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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