Quotes About Robert Hass

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

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.

I had the idea that the world's so full of pain it must sometimes make a kind of singing. — Robert Hass, from "Faint Music," Sun Under Wood (HarperCollins, 1996)

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.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.