Quotes by : Donald Hall

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually....

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed,....

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.....

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because....

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably....

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.....

Worship is not love.

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound....

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding....

One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.