Robert Hass Quotes

Robert Hass — American Poet born on March 01, 1941,

Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005. In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets... (wikipedia)

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

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

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

Robert Hass Quotes

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