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Donald Hall quotes: As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
Donald Hall quotes: When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date. When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.
Donald Hall quotes: One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember. One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.
Donald Hall quotes: Less is more, in prose as in architecture. Less is more, in prose as in architecture.
Donald Hall quotes: Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence. Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
Donald Hall quotes: When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology. When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
Donald Hall quotes: And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer. And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer.
Donald Hall quotes: If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
Donald Hall quotes: I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it. I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.
Donald Hall quotes: Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character. Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.
Donald Hall quotes: But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions. But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
Donald Hall quotes: Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious. Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
Donald Hall quotes: Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying. Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
Donald Hall quotes: We die of habits,deplorable oneslike merely living:finally fatal.- from Tubes We die of habits,
deplorable ones
like merely living:
finally fatal.
- from Tubes
Donald Hall quotes: I have to do draft after draft ... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel I have to do draft after draft ... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.
Donald Hall quotes: Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems. Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
Donald Hall quotes: I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
Donald Hall quotes: Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working. Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
Donald Hall quotes: We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole. We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.
Donald Hall quotes: The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity. The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.
Donald Hall quotes: Can build plane ... Delivery about three months. Can build plane ... Delivery about three months.
Donald Hall quotes: In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia. In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
Donald Hall quotes: The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye. The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.
Donald Hall quotes: To grow old is to lose everything. To grow old is to lose everything.
Donald Hall quotes: I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Donald Hall quotes: I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
Donald Hall quotes: Worship is not love. Worship is not love.
Donald Hall quotes: Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course. Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.
Donald Hall quotes: Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
Donald Hall quotes: Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Donald Hall quotes: You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead. You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.
Donald Hall quotes: Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry. Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry.
Donald Hall quotes: I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times. I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.
Donald Hall quotes: Today when I begin writing I'm aware: something that I don't understand drives this engine. Today when I begin writing I'm aware: something that I don't understand drives this engine.
Donald Hall quotes: Life is hell but death is worse.- from No Deposit Life is hell but death is worse.
- from No Deposit
Donald Hall quotes: Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
Donald Hall quotes: I watch a white landscape that turns pale green, dark green, yellow and red, brown under bare branches, until snow falls again. I watch a white landscape that turns pale green, dark green, yellow and red, brown under bare branches, until snow falls again.
Donald Hall quotes: Sweet death, small son, our instrumentOf immortality,Your cries and hungers documentOur bodily decay. Sweet death, small son, our instrument
Of immortality,
Your cries and hungers document
Our bodily decay.
Donald Hall quotes: One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes. One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
Donald Hall quotes: Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsillof the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass. Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.
Donald Hall quotes: Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat. Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.
Donald Hall quotes: I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life. I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.
Donald Hall quotes: When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe. When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.
Donald Hall quotes: I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine
Donald Hall quotes: When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being. When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
Donald Hall quotes: I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral. I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.
Donald Hall quotes: I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70. I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
Donald Hall quotes: In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings. In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
Donald Hall quotes: Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays. Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
Donald Hall quotes: Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard. Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.
Donald Hall quotes: I've had someone, my assistant, type for me. I've done it that way for more than 50 years because I type with one finger, although quite rapidly. I've had someone, my assistant, type for me. I've done it that way for more than 50 years because I type with one finger, although quite rapidly.
Donald Hall quotes: If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can. If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
Donald Hall quotes: Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel. Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
Donald Hall quotes: We learned how to love each other by loving togethergood things wholly outside each other. We learned how to love each other by loving together
good things wholly outside each other.
Donald Hall quotes: The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
Donald Hall quotes: Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.
Donald Hall quotes: For better or worse, poetry is my life. For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Donald Hall quotes: In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
Donald Hall quotes: It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm. It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.
Donald Hall quotes: In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction. In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
Donald Hall quotes: There are books all around me ... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going. There are books all around me ... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
Donald Hall quotes: We are all dyingof something, always,but our degrees ofawareness differ- from Tubes We are all dying
of something, always,
but our degrees of
awareness differ
- from Tubes
Donald Hall quotes: Everything important always begins from something trivial. Everything important always begins from something trivial.
Donald Hall quotes: Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence. Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
Donald Hall quotes: Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye. Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.
Donald Hall quotes: I don't have a computer. I never have had one. I don't have a computer. I never have had one.
Donald Hall quotes: Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper. Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.
Donald Hall quotes: My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down. My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.
Donald Hall quotes: However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.
Donald Hall quotes: When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other. When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

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