Robert Hass Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Desire, Longing

  "Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 24 (1979)

• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Silly, Hands

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

• Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

  Robert Hass

  Past, Suffering, Desire

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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