Robert Hass - Twentieth century pleasures (1984)

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

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

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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.

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

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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