Donald Hall Quotes

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

Donald Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePoetryMy LifeYoungSeenWere

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

GreatMenPeopleBrainyKnowSay

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

John Stossel

FreedomDeathMeSafetyAmericaSay

Chanel is my ultimate weakness.

Rita Ora

WeaknessUltimateChanel

If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.

Luis Gutierrez

SupportStartImmigrationYouLatino

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

YourselfGiftAttentionYouOwn

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

Alfred Hershey

ResearchDoingYouNewNiceAlways

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

Priscilla Presley

GivingRealInterviewsDidFond

We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways.

Sylvia Plath

WorkHard WorkFaithMoneyJobHard

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Peter De Vries

WordsOverOutCookieShapesLike

Mourinho is serious and demanding.

Sergio Ramos

SeriousDemanding

States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.

Norman Davies

LifeChangeBadAnythingSeemCycle

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

Nikki Haley

StopUpDemocratsGoingBeating

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