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
Robert Hass quotes about
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.
summer spring autumn
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.
golf games people
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
summer winter fans
Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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.
loss thinking
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
variation repetition feels
Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
explosive hard names recite
Walking, I recite the hard explosive names of birds: egret, killdeer, bittern, tern.
american-poet body days flesh good saying
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.
long community enough
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.
address both doubtful iraq poetry war
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.
poet spokesman
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
environmental gary poet
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.
poetry seemed tremendous
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.