Donald Hall Quotes

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

Donald Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 20, 1928 - June 23, 2018

Topics

BeginningPoetryEyeSoundAlways

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

Andrea Arnold

I AmPeopleWhyWayTurnOut

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

John Lithgow

TimeFoolYourselfChildThinking

I'm a really big advocate of ethical fashion. I actually have a travelling boutique called Maison de Mode, which is all about ethical fashion. I also like Maiyet from Paris. They're very Celine-esque in their silhouettes. I love their back story, too: they work with orphans in Colombia and India.

Amanda Hearst

WorkLoveFashionStoryBackIndia

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Stephen Fry

BookElephantGoBirthGiveGet

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

Marya Hornbacher

LifeLongYouBackNeedGet

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Louis Dudek

WorkReligionPoetryEffortThought

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

David Sedaris

ReadingEnjoyLyingCouchJust

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

Sheila Heti

YouChoiceMakeStakesHigherHow

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

Tucker Max

BornAtlantaOutsideUpKentucky

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'

Rihanna

WomenMenFeelYouI CanKnow

Only directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who make period films, have songs in their movies that facilitate the inclusion of classical dance forms. No one else is concentrating on making pure classical numbers.

Remo D'Souza

DanceInclusionNumbersMoviesPure

Streetfighting is just get out there and bang. It's whatever in a street fight. This is different. You have to be real smart in your decisions at this professional level of the game. In a street fight, it doesn't even matter.

Kimbo Slice

FightSmartGameDecisionsYouReal

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