I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."
Robert HassI think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Robert HassThe professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.
Robert HassA movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.
Robert Hass