Donald Hall Quotes

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, Donald Hall Picture Quote

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it,

— Donald Hall

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. Donald Hall Picture Quote

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

— Donald Hall

Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane – who grew Donald Hall Picture Quote

Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane – who grew

— Donald Hall

To grow old is to lose everything. Donald Hall Picture Quote

To grow old is to lose everything.

— Donald Hall

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball Donald Hall Picture Quote

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball

— Donald Hall

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing Donald Hall Picture Quote

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing

— Donald Hall

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs Donald Hall Picture Quote

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs

— Donald Hall

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force Donald Hall Picture Quote

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force

— Donald Hall

Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early Donald Hall Picture Quote

Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early

— Donald Hall

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible – and of course it Donald Hall Picture Quote

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible – and of course it

— Donald Hall

When we put words together – adjective with noun, noun with verb, Donald Hall Picture Quote

When we put words together – adjective with noun, noun with verb,

— Donald Hall

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the Donald Hall Picture Quote

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the

— Donald Hall

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are Donald Hall Picture Quote

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are

— Donald Hall

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which Donald Hall Picture Quote

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which

— Donald Hall

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, Donald Hall Picture Quote

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,

— Donald Hall

But Blake’s voices returned to dictate revisions. Donald Hall Picture Quote

But Blake’s voices returned to dictate revisions.

— Donald Hall

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing Donald Hall Picture Quote

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing

— Donald Hall

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old Donald Hall Picture Quote

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old

— Donald Hall

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

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

— Donald Hall

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’ Donald Hall Picture Quote

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’

— Donald Hall

Less is more, in prose as in architecture. Donald Hall Picture Quote

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

— Donald Hall

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the Donald Hall Picture Quote

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the

— Donald Hall

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. Donald Hall Picture Quote

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

— Donald Hall

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence. Donald Hall Picture Quote

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

— Donald Hall

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character. Donald Hall Picture Quote

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

— Donald Hall

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Donald Hall Picture Quote

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball.

— Donald Hall

Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, Donald Hall Picture Quote

Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory,

— Donald Hall

I don’t know where a poem comes from until after I’ve lived Donald Hall Picture Quote

I don’t know where a poem comes from until after I’ve lived

— Donald Hall

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even Donald Hall Picture Quote

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even

— Donald Hall

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. Donald Hall Picture Quote

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

— Donald Hall

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain Donald Hall Picture Quote

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain

— Donald Hall

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things Donald Hall Picture Quote

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things

— Donald Hall

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity. Donald Hall Picture Quote

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

— Donald Hall

Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their Donald Hall Picture Quote

Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their

— Donald Hall

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a Donald Hall Picture Quote

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a

— Donald Hall

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye. Donald Hall Picture Quote

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

— Donald Hall

Can build plane… Delivery about three months. Donald Hall Picture Quote

Can build plane… Delivery about three months.

— Donald Hall

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game Donald Hall Picture Quote

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game

— Donald Hall

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I Donald Hall Picture Quote

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I

— Donald Hall

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

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

— Donald Hall

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