Robert Hass Quotes

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.