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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
Literary Critic
Poet
Teacher
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University Teacher
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert L. Hass
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Love
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[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.
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The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.
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Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.
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If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.
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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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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
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Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
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My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.
Robert Hass
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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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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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
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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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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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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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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.
Robert Hass
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
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If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.
Robert Hass
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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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.
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