“To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.” KnowsYearsSometimesYoungDiesGrowsLosesAgingIgnorantGrandfatherGlimpsePondsMidsummer Book:The Selected Poems of Donald Hall Source: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHeartLittlesI CanGamesHouseKnow HowClearMy HeartBaseballMilesDiamondCoastLooking DownClear Day Author:Donald Hall
“To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it” IfsKnowsWritingTwoDesireCertainGoalFailingSucceedEndureTwo ThingsLikelihood Book:Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988 Source: Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988
“I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.” KnowsLongHappenedLong TimeNotion Author:Donald Hall
