The Earth forgives the previous year every year. Robert Hass earthforgiveprevious Change image and share on social
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 continueenvironmentalgary 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
Writing is an incessant process of discovery. Robert Hass discoveryincessantprocess Change image and share on social
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 50sbrandobutton 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
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
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking. Robert Hass lossresemblethink Change image and share on social
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 deadideajob Change image and share on social
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 airautumnburn Change image and share on social
