Robert Hass

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

— Robert Hass

#robert-hass #writing #writing-craft #writing-life #life

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. ↗

— Robert Hass

#imagination

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

— Robert Hass

#half #hour #life #take #time

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

#nature

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. ↗

— Robert Hass

#body #continuing #days #evenings #flesh

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. ↗

— Robert Hass

#going #i #i think #idea #job

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

#autumn #burns #california #clarifies #coast

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

— Robert Hass

#loss #new #old #resembles #thinking