Robert Hass Quotes

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In California in the early Spring,
There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day,
The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain -
Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

Robert Hass
All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles the old thinking.
The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea.

Robert Hass
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Robert Hass
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Robert Hass
The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.

Robert Hass
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Robert Hass
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

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

Robert Hass
Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

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

Robert Hass