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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: "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."

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: "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: "Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds."

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.




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: "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: "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: "To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it"

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it



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."

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: "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: "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."

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 greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye."

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.




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 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."

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: "Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay."

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.



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: "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: "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: "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: "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.



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: "Can build plane... Delivery about three months."

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.



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: "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: "To grow old is to lose everything."

To grow old is to lose everything.



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: "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: "But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions."

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.



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: "Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy."

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.



Donald Hall Quotes: "Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of 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: "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: "Less is more, in prose as in architecture."

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.



Donald Hall Quotes: "After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry."

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.



Donald Hall Quotes: "As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try."

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.



Donald Hall Quotes: "Worship is not love."

Worship is not love.



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: "My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books."

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.



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: "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: "Everything important always begins from something trivial."

Everything important always begins from something trivial.



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: "I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it."

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.



Donald Hall Quotes: "For better or worse, poetry is my life."

For better or worse, poetry is my life.



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: "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: "I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry."

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.



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: "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.