Best quotes by Donald Hall on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Donald Hall on Poetry

• ‟ Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

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• ‟ Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

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• ‟ I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.

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• ‟ I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

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• ‟ I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

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• ‟ For better or worse, poetry is my life.

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• ‟ Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

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• ‟ In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

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