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. - Donald Hall 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year. - Donald Hall 5 Share Now -
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. - Donald Hall 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. - Donald Hall 8 Share Now -
Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye. - Donald Hall 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
