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
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,
fool fools-and-foolishness three
I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago.
finished
I think I'm probably finished writing about it now,
shall stuff time
now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!
marriage together how-to-love
We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.
hard-work writing desire
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
powerful done denial
If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
eye literature world
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.
dark opposites ideas
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 around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.
writing light hands
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.
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.
baseball football brother
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.