The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

- Robert Hass

I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onloo…

- Robert Hass

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that …

- Robert Hass

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

- Robert Hass

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

- Robert Hass

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

- Robert Hass

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

- Robert Hass

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than en…

- Robert Hass

A word is elegy to what it signifies.

- Robert Hass