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

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You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far. " So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven

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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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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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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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You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far. " So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven

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