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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

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.

Tags: poetry, time, justice, job

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

Robert Hass

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

Tags: poetry

About Author
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) 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.

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

Robert Hass

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

Tags: poetry

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

Robert Hass

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

Tags: fiction writing, robert hass, writing, writing craft, writing life

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Robert Hass

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Tags: writing

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are...

Robert Hass

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are...

Tags: writers on writing

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 al...

Robert Hass

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 al...

Tags: education, you, see

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

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.

Tags: world, say, will