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All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
~ Robert Hass
About
Loss
New
Old
Resembles
Thinking
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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.
~ Robert Hass
Dead
Going
I Think
Idea
Job
Justice
Poetry
Political
Refresh
Think
Time
Us
Which
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In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
~ Robert Hass
Air
Autumn
Burns
California
Coast
Day
Dreamed
Early
Like
Mist
Mornings
Myself
Pain
Pale
Slowly
Spring
Well
Yellow
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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
~ Robert Hass
Day
Half
Hour
Life
Take
Time
Work
Write
You
Your
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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.
~ Robert Hass
Afternoon
Blackberry
Body
Continuing
Days
Evenings
Flesh
Good
Moments
Saying
Tenderness
Those
Words
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As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
~ Robert Hass
Asked
Laureate
Literature
Poet
Poet Laureate
Spokesman
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I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
~ Robert Hass
About
Always
Because
Books
Got
Interested
Literacy
Moaning
More
More People
People
Question
Read
Why
Writers
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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
American
Course
Elective
Give
High
Lecture
Lot
Many
Novel
Only
Poetry
Poets
Points
Russian
Shot
Students
Take
Teach
Them
Want
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I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.
~ Robert Hass
Continue
Environmental
Gary
Henry
John
Just
Part
Poet
Read
Say
Thinker
Who
Will
World
Would
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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
Any
Art
Business
Claim
Goes
Heart
How
Make
Moral
Much
Poetry
Question
Right
See
Too
Too Much
Way
World
You
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The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
~ Robert Hass
Earth
Every
Forgives
Previous
Year
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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
Book
Brothers
First
High
High School
Knocked
Me
Out
Read
Really
School
Senior
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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
Around
Communities
Enough
Go
Individuals
Long
Make
Market
Markets
More
Networks
Than
Work
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The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
~ Robert Hass
About
Address
Both
Could
Different
Different Ways
Doubtful
Feel
Iraq
Iraq War
Like
Made
Me
Poetry
Them
Usefulness
Very
Vietnam
Vietnam War
War
Ways
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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
Board
College
Enough
Enough Money
Had
Had Enough
Hills
Lost
Money
Room
Scholarship
Tuition
Year
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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
Brando
Cal
Dean
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Headed
High
High School
James
James Dean
Marlon Brando
School
Shirt
Stanford
Supposed
Trio
Type
Were
You
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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
About
Crazy
Large
Me
Notice
Noticing
Poetry
Seemed
Tremendous
Who
Younger
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Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
~ Robert Hass
Discovery
Incessant
Process
Writing
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You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
~ Robert Hass
Also
Begin
Connected
Cuts
Education
Environmental
Environmental Protection
Kind
Less
Mean
More
Musical
Protection
Schools
See
Things
You
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