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Donald Hall is a renowned American poet, born on September 20, 1928. His poetry is known for its simplicity, depth, and emotional richness, which has won him a wide audience.

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Famous Donald Hall Quotes

“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.”

Past Fans Baseball Glasses Village Snowy Baseball Love Baseball Fans

Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.”

Father Football Son Brother Baseball Backyards Father And Son

Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.”

People Thinking Knows Heart Littles I Can Games House Know How Clear My Heart Baseball Miles Diamond Coast Looking Down Clear Day

Author:Donald Hall

“Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.”

Long Father Games Generations Son Summer Baseball Endless Joining

Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.”

America Memories Space Baseball Continuity

Author:Donald Hall

“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.”

Sometimes Lasts Games Easy Baseball Impression Dimensions Suggestions Batting

Author:Donald Hall

About the Author

Born: September 20, 1928
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 80

Books & Sources

Essays After EightyRelated source material

A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing NinetyRelated source material

Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and SelectedRelated source material

Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)Related source material

WRITING WELLRelated source material

Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviewsRelated source material

Life WorkRelated source material

Old and New PoemsRelated source material

Old and New Poems: Donald HallRelated source material

Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988Related source material

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