What did Robert Hass mean by: Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others. - Robert Hass Poet · USA Copy
+ 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
+ All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Loss, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Cities, Justice, Sweet, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ Take the time to write. You can do your life’s work in half an hour a day. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Hours, Writing, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Changed, Literacy, Suspicion, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
+ The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Hass, Bird, Waiting, 0 - Robert Hass Poet · USA
You can’t argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word. - Jennifer Donnelly Author
We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more. - Garry Kasparov Chessplayer · Russia
Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
It’s why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself. - Michael Ondaatje Author · Sri Lanka
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. - George Herbert Pastor · England