Top 67 Quotes by Donald Hall

About Donald Hall

These are some quotes by American author Donald Hall Poet, who was born on September 20, 1928.

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

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

Donald Hall

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

Donald Hall

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

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

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

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

Donald Hall

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

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

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

Donald Hall

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

Donald Hall

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