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1. "Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day." ~ Robert Hass
2. "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
3. "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
4. "Writing is an incessant process of discovery." ~ Robert Hass
5. "It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written." ~ Robert Hass
6. "Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it." ~ Robert Hass
7. "But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the fiddleheads, why they don't eat the peppermint saprophytes sprouting along the creek; or she visualizes the approach to the cabin, its large windows, the fuchsias in front of it where Anna's hummingbirds always hover with dirty green plumage and jeweled throats. Sometimes she thinks about her dream, the one in which her mother wakes up with no hands. The cabin smells of oil paint, but also of pine. The painter's touch is sexual and not sexual, as she herself is....When the memory of that time came to her, it was touched by strangeness because it formed no pattern with the other events in her life. It lay in her memory like one piece of broken tile, salmon-coloured or the deep green of wet leaves, beautiful in itself but unusable in the design she was making" ~ Robert Hass
8. "So few things we need to know.And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack.Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beautyof giving it all up. Like walking steadfastin the rhythms, winter light and summer dark.And the time for cutting furrows and the dance" ~ Robert Hass
9. "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
10. "All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking." ~ Robert Hass
11. "The Earth forgives the previous year every year." ~ Robert Hass
12. "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
13. "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
14. "August is dust here. Droughtstuns the road,but juice gathers in the berries." ~ Robert Hass
15. "After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances." ~ Robert Hass
16. "Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully." ~ Robert Hass
17. "It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us." ~ Robert Hass
18. "It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising." ~ Robert Hass
19. "When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say what is in your mind; never hesitate a moment." ~ Robert Hass
20. "Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter." ~ Robert Hass
21. "When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead,and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt,and the heroine has studied her face and its defectsremorselessly, and the pain they thought might,as a token of their earnestness, release them from themselveshas lost its novelty and not released them,and they have begun to think, kindly and distantly,watching the others go about their days—likes and dislikes, reasons, habits, fears—that self-love is the one weedy stalkof every human blossoming, and understood,therefore, why they had been, all their lives, in such a fury to defend it, and that no one—except some almost inconceivable saint in his poolof poverty and silence—can escape this violent, automaticlife's companion ever, maybe then, ordinary light,faint music under things, a hovering like grace appears." ~ Robert Hass
22. "The awful longing in his eyes, are changed foreverOn their rocky waste of island by their imaginationOf his imagination of the song they didn't sing." ~ Robert Hass
23. "It's not the story though, not the friendleaning toward you, saying "And then I realized—,"which is the part of stories one never quite believes. I had the idea that the world's so full of painit must sometimes make a kind of singing.And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps—First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing." ~ Robert Hass
24. "Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly." ~ Robert Hass
25. "Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism." ~ Robert Hass
26. "One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it." ~ Robert Hass

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