“You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.” KindMeanSchoolCuttingEnvironmentalMusicalConnectedProtectionEnvironmental ProtectionMusical Education Author:Robert Hass
“They 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.” PeopleLooksKindArtCareLiteratureCommunityAbilityLandPaintingTraditionLocalsAttachmentConnectedness Author:Robert Hass
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass
“Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.” PeopleKindHandsVariousVersionsOfficialsInconvenient Author:Robert Hass
“Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsWritingTryingKindChildrenWarProblemHappensAgeFormStuffViolenceLaborSightStuckWitnessBe YouElsewhereLive Your LifeGlobalizationVictimizationChild LaborSweatshops Author:Robert Hass
“One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.” WayFeelsWritingKindUniverseMediaOne WayCartoon Author:Robert Hass
“There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.” KindDealsPoundsStood UpEliot Author:Robert Hass
