The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.
The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too - Robert Hass
The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
- 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
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…
The Earth forgives the previous year every year. - Robert Hass
The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. - Robert Hass
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free. - Robert Hass
Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
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
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 …
I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read. - Robert Hass
I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.
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
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…
A word is elegy to what it signifies. - Robert Hass
A word is elegy to what it signifies.
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