Robert Hass Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.

  Robert Hass

  Imagination, Community, Way

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

• Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really mattered and that it doesn't now. They also tend to believe that it really matters someplace else - in very improbable places often. Russia is someone's idea of a place where literature really counts.

  Robert Hass

  Believe, Ideas, Russia

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

• Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, but instead with elocution and public speaking. So when people read literature, it was to memorize and to recite it.

  Robert Hass

  Latin, People, Greek

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature, the ability to look at paintings, the sense of connectedness to the land, the sense of community that comes from people taking care of their own.

  Robert Hass

  Art, Attachment, Land

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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