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Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

~Donald Hall

Topics: About Anything Course Days Feel Feel Good Good Never Par Some Sometimes Work Worthwhile Written I Feel

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When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Chicken Cooked Days Dear Dinners Eat Farm Grandfather Grandmother Grandparents Had Hen Hours Kate Lived Might Noon Setting Summers Three Twelve

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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.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Cake Candles Chocolate Chocolate Cake Choose Corn Cream Every Followed Got Ice Ice Cream Icing Menu Rice September Twentieth Vanilla Were Year

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A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Acquainted Best Century Cooking Depths English Fellowship Good London Me Oxford Paris Restaurants 1950S

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Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Although Bottles Came Cents Children Drank Instead Milk Paid Quart Salary Six Stuff Wife

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In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Civil Civil War Common Day Eisenhower Fathers Fifties Founding Founding Fathers Smooth Time War Were While Wore

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Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Both Combat Facial Farmer Fought Hair Hampshire New New Hampshire Old Sheep Too War Who Wore

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In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Daunting Doing Freelance Groceries Hampshire Loved Mortgage Moved New New Hampshire Pay Quit Tenure Worked Writing I Quit

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For better or worse, poetry is my life.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Better Life My Life Poetry Worse

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It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Dropped Each Each Generation Frost Generation His Knees Largely Lindsay Living Made Middle Over Performed Poem Poems Poet Public Road Robert Sometimes Then Took Twenties Used Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 20th, 1928

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