Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. - Robert Hass - Quotesmemo.com

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I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

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Robert Hass

Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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The birds are silent in the woods.
Just wait: soon enough
You will be quiet too

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