Robert Hass (March 1, 1941 / San Francisco)

a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials. more »

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  • There are moments when the body is as numinous
    as words, days that are the good flesh continuing
    Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
    saying blackberry, blackberry, bla...
    Robert Hass (b. 1941), U.S. poet. Meditation at Lagunitas (l. 28-31). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (...
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  • ''All the new thinking is about loss.
    In this it resembles all the old thinking.''
    Robert Hass (b. 1941), U.S. poet. Meditation at Lagunitas (l. 1-2). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d...
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  • ''Longing, we say, because desire is full
    of endless distances.''
    Robert Hass (b. 1941), U.S. poet. Meditation at Lagunitas (l. 24-25). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (...
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  • ''a word is elegy to what it signifies.''
    Robert Hass (b. 1941), U.S. poet. Meditation at Lagunitas (l. 11). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ...
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