Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. Robert Hass More Quotes by Robert Hass More Quotes From Robert Hass Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Robert Hass numinous afternoon evening One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it. Robert Hass summer winter spring Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet. Robert Hass cities justice sweet It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. Robert Hass sometimes 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 taken military revenge Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have. Robert Hass reading teacher people Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. Robert Hass vivid twenties firsts 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. Robert Hass reading writing mean Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully. Robert Hass sunset green sky 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 too-much world art I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets. Robert Hass lectures want giving I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels. Robert Hass long book people What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past. Robert Hass past ideas thinking Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. Robert Hass games golf people In California in the early Spring, Robert Hass pain spring morning As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other. Robert Hass community imagination way 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 tuition college years 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 senior brother book Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. Robert Hass suffering desire past 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 community self long
