Quotes by Robert Hass

About Robert Hass:

Robert L. Hass 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.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Robert Hass

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

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 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...

Robert Hass

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Hass
  • DescriptionAmerican poet
  • AliasesRobert L. Hass
  • BornMarch 1, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry; National Book Award