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Robert Hass

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: ‘How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?’

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn’t notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it’s their only elective, so this is their one shot. They’ll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don’t read books.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

The market doesn’t make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there’s more than enough to go around.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

The first book that really knocked me out was the ‘Brothers Karamazov.’ I read it when I was a senior in high school.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

– Robert Hass

Robert Hass

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

Robert Hass

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

– Robert Hass

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