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.
From Robert Hass
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
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.
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.
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
Writing is an incessant process of discovery.
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