Robert Hass Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• 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.

  Robert Hass

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Silly, Hands

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

• Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

  Robert Hass

  Sweet, Cities, Justice

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

• [Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he imagined, over and against the universalizing politics of [Carl] Marx, was the medieval city of Novgorod, which had in its center a public well where the water was free to everyone. That became for him a figure of justice.

  Robert Hass

  Cities, Ideas, Justice

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

• I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

  Robert Hass

  Art, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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