Robert Hass Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.”

“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.”

“The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”