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

~Donald Hall

Topics: Alert Antiquity Galaxy However Remains Unknown

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We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Athens Beam Climbing Down Early Hill Look North Peak Picture Posing Reached See Setting Setting Sun Struck Sun Twilight Were

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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.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Always Connecticut Culture Grew Hampshire Landscape Loved New New Hampshire Preferred Relative School Solitude Suburbs Time Up Year

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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

Topics: About Baseball Been Books Cared Certainly Essays Had Looked Magazine Man Many Myself Needing Poetry Prose Rich Rich Man Some Support Them Things Two Wanted Would Write Written

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I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Agility Cheek Fair Feed Frighten Guards Happy Leap Point Porch Rats Squirrels Stuff Tree Weather

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When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Accomplish All Day Better Birds Day Flowers Lament Nothing Over Pleased Sit Watch Window

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I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Able About Again Christmas Day Days Down Else Every Every Day Get Got Hours Important Just Me Might Nap Pick Put Say Something Something Else Stuck Take Until Up Way Work Worked Would Year 365 Days

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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Also Art Beautiful Beauty Embody Emotion Favorite Feel Feeling How Kind Language Like Means Offers Paintings Poetry School Second Teach Which Work Works

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

~Donald Hall

Topics: Contentment Know Work Working You

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Everything important always begins from something trivial.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Always Begins Everything Important Something Trivial

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 20th, 1928

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