When I was in high school in the ’50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass Quotes
I 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.
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| Birth: | 1st March, 1941 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
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