Robert Hass Quotes about Desire

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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Distance, Desire, Longing

"Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 24 (1979)

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

Past, Suffering, Desire

Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr