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Donald Hall Quotes

To grow old is to lose everything Picture Quote #1

Less is more, in prose as in architecture Picture Quote #1

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons Picture Quote #1

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion Picture Quote #1

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay Picture Quote #1

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: Things will get better! You won’t always feel so depressed! Cheer up! Picture Quote #1

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Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers Picture Quote #1

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate Picture Quote #1

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character Picture Quote #1

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye Picture Quote #1

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence Picture Quote #1

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity Picture Quote #1

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Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard Picture Quote #1

I don’t know where a poem comes from until after I’ve lived with it a long time. I’ve a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you Picture Quote #1

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content Picture Quote #1

Poetry is what I’ve done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems Picture Quote #1

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight Picture Quote #1

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau Picture Quote #1

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If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems Picture Quote #1

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside Picture Quote #1

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing Picture Quote #1

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me Picture Quote #1

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To grow old is to lose everything (Donald Hall Quotes) Less is more, in prose as in architecture (Donald Hall Quotes) Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons. (Donald Hall Quotes) Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion (Donald Hall Quotes) Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay. (Donald Hall Quotes) Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: Things will get better! You won’t always feel so depressed! Cheer up! (Donald Hall Quotes) Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. (Donald Hall Quotes) If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate (Donald Hall Quotes) Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character (Donald Hall Quotes) The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye (Donald Hall Quotes) Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence (Donald Hall Quotes) The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity (Donald Hall Quotes) Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard (Donald Hall Quotes) I don’t know where a poem comes from until after I’ve lived with it a long time. I’ve a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you (Donald Hall Quotes) To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content (Donald Hall Quotes) Poetry is what I’ve done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems (Donald Hall Quotes) For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight (Donald Hall Quotes) The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau (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 (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 (Donald Hall Quotes) I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems (Donald Hall Quotes) I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside (Donald Hall Quotes) Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing (Donald Hall Quotes) You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead (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 (Donald Hall Quotes) I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me (Donald Hall Quotes)