Donald Hall
Donald Hall
Donald Andrew Hall, Jr., known as Donald Hall is an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 September 1928
CityHamden, CT
fool fools-and-foolishness three
I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago.
students substitute success teachers
Substitute teachers have a part in the success of these students
drives fear
Fear is what drives me to your demise.
life married wonderful
It is about her death, but it is also about our life together, we were married 23 wonderful years,
summer baseball father
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.
integrity reading pleasure
The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.
voice revision blake
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
summer failure flower
Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning . . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.
months three aviation
Can build plane... Delivery about three months.
grows loses
To grow old is to lose everything.