"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
About this Quote
This quote by Robert Hass speaks to the power of poetry to inspire and inspire individuals to pursue justice. He believes that poetry has a political function to play in society, which is to keep the concept of justice alive in people's minds. He believes that without poetry, the concept of justice can become stale and forgotten. He thinks that poetry can assist to remind people of the value of justice and the need to strive for it. By utilizing poetic language and imagery, poets can assist to stimulate a sense of justice and motivate people to do something about it. In this method, poetry can be an effective tool for social modification and a reminder of the significance of justice in our society.
This quote is written / told by Robert Hass somewhere between March 1, 1941 and today. He/she was a famous Poet from USA.
The author also have 4 other quotes.
"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"
"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
