Quotes From "Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose On Poetry" By Robert Hass

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no...
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Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. Robert Hass
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One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it. Robert Hass
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Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. Robert Hass