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Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.
Robert Hass
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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
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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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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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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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Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.
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Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really mattered and that it doesn't now. They also tend to believe that it really matters someplace else - in very improbable places often. Russia is someone's idea of a place where literature really counts.
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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.
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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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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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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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There are either poems about sex/love or God.
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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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As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.
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Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
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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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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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The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
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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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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
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