Twentieth Century Pleasures Quotes

“One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.”
― Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

“Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.”
― Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

“The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.”
― Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

“Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.”
― Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry