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Robert Hass
American
Poet
About the author
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,
American
Poet
#Words
#Saying
#Body
#Moments
#Tenderness
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
Robert Hass,
American
Poet
#Time
#Life
#Work
#Day
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
Robert Hass,
American
Poet
#Thinking
#Old
#Loss
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,
American
Poet
#Time
#Idea
#Justice
#Job
#Poetry
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,
American
Poet
#Day
#Pain
#Spring
#Autumn