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
shall stuff time
now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!
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,
hard-work writing desire
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
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.
grief loss house
Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
real wish want
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.
together nouns adjectives
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
water streams seems
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
horse autumn winter
For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs, yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers: O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.