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. Robert Hass Read Quote
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. Robert Hass Read Quote
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. Robert Hass Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Robert Hass Read Quote
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain – Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. Robert Hass Read Quote
When I was in high school in the ’50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal. Robert Hass Read Quote
