93 Quotes by Robert Hass

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

When it is bad…I go into the nightand the night eats me

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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

August is dust here. Droughtstuns the road,but juice gathers in the berries.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

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.

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.

Don’t imitate me;it’s as boringas the two halves of a melon.