Quotes by Robert Hass

• 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.
• Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
• All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
• 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.
• 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.