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
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
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
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. - Donald Hall
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
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
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…
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
Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers…
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. - Donald Hall
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
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
If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
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
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…
You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead. - Donald Hall
You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.
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
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful…
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