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Robert Hass
American
Poet
Born:
Mar 1
,
1941
About
Environmental
Me
Poet
Work
You
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Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
Robert Hass
Writing
Discovery
Process
Incessant
The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
Robert Hass
Year
Every
Earth
Previous
Forgives
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
Robert Hass
Poet
Laureate
Poet Laureate
Spokesman
Literature
Asked
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
Art
You
Business
Heart
World
Too Much
Too
Way
Claim
Moral
See
Poetry
Make
How
Question
Goes
Any
Much
Right
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
Myself
Day
Spring
Autumn
Pain
Air
Dreamed
Slowly
Mornings
Like
California
Mist
Well
Stings
Yellow
Burns
Coast
Pale
Early
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
Robert Hass
Old
Thinking
About
New
Loss
Resembles
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
Me
Crazy
Tremendous
About
Seemed
Poetry
Younger
Notice
Noticing
Who
Large
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
Saying
Good
Words
Those
Blackberry
Tenderness
Days
Continuing
Afternoon
Body
Flesh
Moments
Evenings
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
You
School
Type
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Marlon Brando
High
Trio
High School
Headed
Cal
Supposed
Dean
Were
Shirt
Brando
James
James Dean
Stanford
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
Money
College
Year
Lost
Enough
Enough Money
Had
Had Enough
Scholarship
Hills
Tuition
Board
Room
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