I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read. -Robert Hass Environmental
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools. -Robert Hass Environmental
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 Poetry
