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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don’t read books. Robert Hass Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking. Robert Hass Read Quote
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 Read Quote
