Top 67 Quotes by Donald Hall

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.

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

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

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