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My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

Robert Hass

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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
Literary Critic
Poet
Teacher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert L. Hass
Readership
Literacy
Suspicion
Changed
Place
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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Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.
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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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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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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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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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