Robert Hass Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

  Robert Hass

  Running, Land, Water

• [Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he imagined, over and against the universalizing politics of [Carl] Marx, was the medieval city of Novgorod, which had in its center a public well where the water was free to everyone. That became for him a figure of justice.

  Robert Hass

  Cities, Ideas, Justice

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

• I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to medicine and clean water and education." But I don't think poets have any special insight on how to get there. And the 20th century is a pretty good record of that because so many of the great poets were Stalinists: Vallejo, Neruda, Eluard, Aragon, etc. They wrote their odes to Lenin and Stalin. They glorified some of the most violent and grotesque dictatorships of the 20th century. And a lot of the ones who were not Stalinists were fascists or fascist sympathizers.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Medicine, Water

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

  Robert Hass

  Sweet, Cities, Justice

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

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