We learned how to love each other by loving together Donald Hall More Quotes by Donald Hall More Quotes From Donald Hall Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right. Donald Hall home years moving Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine. Donald Hall engines writing today For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight. Donald Hall glasses baseball past I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. Donald Hall goal reason writing Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. Donald Hall important done found The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity. Donald Hall pleasure reading integrity I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. Donald Hall sleep writing bird Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character. Donald Hall anxious opposites character The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye. Donald Hall crafts eye kindness Sweet death, small son, our instrument Donald Hall decay sweet son I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. Donald Hall grief wish loss Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper. Donald Hall terrible paper writing But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions. Donald Hall blake revision voice The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. Donald Hall verses binding form Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy. Donald Hall suggestions baseball games In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face. Donald Hall basketball running football Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill Donald Hall horse glasses sea For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, Donald Hall autumn horse winter To grow old is to lose everything. Donald Hall loses grows Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!" Donald Hall things-will-get-better greatness cheer
