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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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“April is Poetry Month, the Academy of American Poets tells us. In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April of 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.”

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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

“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed in literature by reading faster and faster--but reading more is reading less. I learned to slow down.”

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Book:A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

Source: A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

“Exercise is boring. Everything is boring that does not happen in a chair (reading and writing) or in bed.”

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Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty

“The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.”

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Book:Claims for Poetry

Source: Claims for Poetry

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

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

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Old and New Poems: Donald HallRelated source material

Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988Related source material

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