Robert Hass Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 1, 1941

Topics

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There are always pluses and minus to commercialization. It broadcasts something to the masses. So that's the plus. The minus is it may lose some of its meaning if you dilute it.

Jidenna

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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Stephen Hawking

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It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Steven Spielberg

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Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro's true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.

Sidney Buchman

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Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Misha Collins

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I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

Douglas Wilson

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While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.

Dean Ornish

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As long as I know that I give my best every time, I can sleep well knowing that.

Ciara

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Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.

ASAP Rocky

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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

William Jennings Bryan

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I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

Peter Baynham

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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter Drucker

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