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 bookbrotherhigh Change image and share on social
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. Robert Hass bookinterestliteracy Change image and share on social
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 boardcampcollege Change image and share on social
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 afternoonblackberrybody Change image and share on social
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Robert Hass asklaureateliterature Change image and share on social
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 crazylargenotice Change image and share on social
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 communityindividualinterest Change image and share on social
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 americanelectivegive share on social
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 artbusinessclaim share on social
