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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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“Generation after generation, my family’s old people sat at this window to watch the year. There are beds in this house where babies were born, where the same babies died eighty years later.”

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Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty

“For better or worse, poetry is my life.”

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Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty

“The growth of poetry is a counterforce--and a response--to our culture of numbers and information, of digits and commerce. We read and write poems so that our psyches can speak to each other with intelligence in the language of feeling, acknowledging the multiplicity and contradiction of each human life.”

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Author:Donald Hall

“The emotional intricacy and urgency of human life expresses itself most fiercely in contradiction. If any feeling makes a sunny interminable sky, the feeling is a lie and the sky is a lie. If at a moment of sun a part of the landscape collapses in earthquake, then feeling may establish itself.”

Life Feelings Happiness Emotions Trauma Contradiction

Book:A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

Source: A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

“But nothing in human life is unmixed, and honors inevitably balance themselves with self-doubt. Everyone knows that medals are rubber”

Life Writing Awards Medals

Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty

About the Author

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

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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

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

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Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988Related source material

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