Quotes by : Robert Hass

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And....

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth....

August is dust here. Droughtstuns the road,but juice gathers in the berries.

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge....

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

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going....

But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the....

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness....

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.....