Author: Donald Hall

Quotes

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

- Donald Hall

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

- Donald Hall

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

- Donald Hall

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

- Donald Hall

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

- Donald Hall

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

- Donald Hall

Each season, my balance gets worse, and sometimes I fall. I no longer cook for myself but microwave widower food, mostly Stouffer's. My fingers are clumsy and slow with buttons.

Each season, my balance gets worse, and sometimes I fall. I no longer cook for myself but microwave widower food, mostly Stouffer's. My fingers are clumsy and slow with buttons.

- Donald Hall

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

- Donald Hall

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

- Donald Hall

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