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In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Anything Direction Go Poem Short Short Story Story Write You

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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

Topics: Aloud Bad Booming First First Time Had Oxford Poem Prize Theatre Time Won

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New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Age Ceremony Circles Come Dying Endures Feel Grow Longer Losses Me Metaphor New Old Old Age Poems Preferable Prose Smaller Which Whole I Feel

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It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

~Donald Hall

Topics: Aware Away Days Die Me Pass Sensible Will

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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

Topics: Favorite Grandfather Great-Grandfather Here House Kid Live Moved Place Spent Summers World

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

~Donald Hall

Topics: Abandoned Cliffs Collapsing Eighties Grew Me Older Poetry Seventies Ahead

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Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Ability Breaking Control Dependent Doorway Grew Kind Less Line Me Poetry Prose Sense Sound

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

~Donald Hall

Topics: About Age Aging Better Did Feel Really Than

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Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

~Donald Hall

Topics: About Anybody Because Bit Death Does Dying Forward Going Happen Know Little Little Bit Look Me Obviously Simply Worry You Ahead

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I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Could Death Disappear Famous Future Good Hope Know Many Never Poets Prizes Seen Some Sort Try Turn Were Who Won Write I Can I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 20th, 1928

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