Robert Hass
Robert Hass
Robert L. Hassis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
variation repetition feels
Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
teacher reading people
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.
believe literature different
Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really mattered and that it doesn't now. They also tend to believe that it really matters someplace else - in very improbable places often. Russia is someone's idea of a place where literature really counts.
golf games people
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
sometimes
It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
summer winter fans
Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
sweet cities justice
Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet
past suffering desire
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
loss thinking
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
sunset sky green
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.
years forgiving earth
The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
soul literacy citizenship
The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.
senior brother book
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
college years tuition
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.