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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.
Robert Hass
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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
Literary Critic
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University Teacher
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San Francisco County
California
Robert L. Hass
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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
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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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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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Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too far, so does experiment with writing about politics in poetry and what the politics of poetry is.
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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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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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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
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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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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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The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
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