Quote of the day
A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair;
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Robert Hass
Born: March 1, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005.
Known for:
- Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 (2007)
- Sun Under Wood (1996)
- Human wishes (1989)
- Twentieth century pleasures (1984)