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Donald Hall
Donald Hall
American Poet
Born: Sep 20, 1928
Died: Jun 23, 2018
About Always Me Old Work You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream. Donald Hall
Cake Year September Every Corn Vanilla Followed Menu Got Were Scoop Candles Ice Ice Cream Icing Rice Chocolate Cream Chocolate Cake Choose Twentieth
Each season, my balance gets worse, and sometimes I fall. I no longer cook for myself but microwave widower food, mostly Stouffer's. My fingers are clumsy and slow with buttons. Donald Hall
Myself Food Balance Sometimes Slow Fall Worse Fingers Longer Mostly Gets Microwave Clumsy Cook Each Season Buttons
I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral. Donald Hall
Will Seconds Immortality About Expect Six After Last Funeral
When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours. Donald Hall
Three Farm Setting Summers Dinners Eat Had Days Hours Dear Noon Chicken Might Grandfather Grandmother Grandparents Cooked Kate Twelve Hen Lived
When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology. Donald Hall
Technology People Result Think Poems Poetry Write Attempting Reaction Partly Numbers
As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago. Donald Hall
Ninth Sign See Born Look Cattle His Decade Century Grandfather Barn Gray
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know. Donald Hall
Death Hope Future Good Try Seen Some Poets Could Write Never Disappear Know Sort Were Won Prizes Famous Turn Who Many
After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry. Donald Hall
Hate School Wilderness Claimed Insane High High School Adolescent Poetry Couple Exeter Years Males After Public Whom
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction. Donald Hall
You Poem Direction Write Go Short Anything Short Story Story
I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it. Donald Hall
Love Me Hate Say Write Writers Heard Who
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays. Donald Hall
Book Criticism Publish Books Would Poems New New Book Anthology Years Essays Many Four
I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it. Donald Hall
Time Culture Solitude School Year Relative New Always New Hampshire Hampshire Up Grew Loved Suburbs Preferred Landscape Connecticut
Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad. Donald Hall
Wife Drank Bottles Instead Stuff Although Quart Came Salary Six Children Cents Paid Milk
For better or worse, poetry is my life. Donald Hall
Life Better My Life Worse Poetry
In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. Donald Hall
Time Theatre First Booming Bad Poem Had Aloud First Time Won Prize Oxford
I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed. Donald Hall
Happy Weather Tree Guards Point Rats Feed Stuff Fair Cheek Leap Frighten Squirrels Agility Porch
When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers. Donald Hall
Day Better Sit Nothing Birds Pleased All Day Window Over Accomplish Lament Watch Flowers
I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life. Donald Hall
Life Daily Feelings About More Open Countryside Hills Felt Just Expressive Daily Life Need
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. Donald Hall
Life My Life Important Every Poems Poetry Had Important Thing Itself Done Whole Found Thing
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
Life My Life Seen Young Increase Enormous Virtually Poetry Consumption Readings Were
I've had someone, my assistant, type for me. I've done it that way for more than 50 years because I type with one finger, although quite rapidly. Donald Hall
Me Type Way Rapidly Finger Someone More Had Although Because Years Than Done Quite Assistant
I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry. Donald Hall
War Rare Books Harvard Poetry Poets Excitement Because Lot Very Bunch After Translated Whole Published
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes. Donald Hall
Me Poet Shoes Scary Tennis Had Talked Because Been American Oxford Wore
By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press. Donald Hall
Love Beautiful Club Field Press Though Fine Small Park Wrigley Detroit Never Had Come Tiger Got Years Antiquated Michigan Gradually Stadium To Love Baseball Lived Watching
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems. Donald Hall
William Williams Moore Rarely Poems Poets Read Were Famous Asked Even
When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe. Donald Hall
Poe Horror Fondness Horror Movies Had Like Read Boy Said Door Movies Next Next Door Should

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