Zitat des Tages von Robert Hass:
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
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.
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
