Top 67 Quotes by Donald Hall

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.

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

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.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.