What did Robert Hass mean by: If you read three books a day you couldn’t read all the poetry that’s being published. - Robert Hass Poet · USA Copy
+ As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Artist, Work Out, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ If you’re imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Responsible, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Philosophical, Poet, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Hell, Poetry, Writing, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Afternoon, Evening, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Arguing, Rhetoric, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Desire, Distance, Longing, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Repetition, Variation, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. - Jean Craighead George
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. - Lin Yutang Writer · China
