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Less is more, in prose as in architecture.
— Donald Hall
And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer.
— Donald Hall
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
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
— Donald Hall
Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
— Donald Hall
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
— Donald Hall
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
— Donald Hall
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
— Donald Hall
Can build plane ... Delivery about three months.
— Donald Hall
In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
— Donald Hall
To grow old is to lose everything.
— Donald Hall
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
— Donald Hall
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
— Donald Hall
Worship is not love.
— Donald Hall
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
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
— Donald Hall
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
— Donald Hall
Today when I begin writing I'm aware: something that I don't understand drives this engine.
— Donald Hall
Life is hell but death is worse.- from No Deposit — Donald Hall
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
— Donald Hall
Sweet death, small son, our instrumentOf immortality,
Your cries and hungers document
Our bodily decay. — Donald Hall
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
— Donald Hall
Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsillof the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass. — Donald Hall
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
When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
— Donald Hall
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
— Donald Hall
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.
— Donald Hall
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
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
We learned how to love each other by loving togethergood things wholly outside each other. — Donald Hall
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.
— Donald Hall
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
— Donald Hall
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
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
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
Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
— Donald Hall
Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.
— Donald Hall
I don't have a computer. I never have had one.
— Donald Hall
