Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap …

- Donald Hall

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

- Donald Hall

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

- Donald Hall

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers…

- Donald Hall

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

- Donald Hall

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful…

- Donald Hall

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 d…

- Donald Hall

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 ever…

- 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