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Donald Hall Quotes

American - Poet | September 20, 1928 - June 23, 2018

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

War Hair Farmer Sheep New Old

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Life Poetry Better My Life Worse

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.

Road Generation Sometimes Living

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.

Time Theatre Bad First Time First

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

Beginning Poetry Eye Sound Always

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

Child People Loved New Grandfather

My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

Age Death Old Age Balance Problem

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

Age Travel Old Age Airport Way Old

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

Me Die Will Days Pass Aware

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.

Day Flowers Window Birds Better Sit

When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

Home College Blind Year Girlfriend

Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry.

Divorce Miserable Same Always Marry

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