The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.
Robert HassI think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.
Robert HassThey 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 HassThe market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.
Robert Hass