Donald Hall

On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.