One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.
Robert HassThe problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.
Robert HassWhen I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.
Robert Hass