Donald Hall Quotes

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, collidin...

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books ...

[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we kno...

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next org...

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably ...

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed...

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and de...

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my inte...

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able ...

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their...

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs ar...

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. ...

One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound...

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into p...

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Worship is not love.

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were v...

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of ...

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poe...

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I proba...

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercis...

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adoles...