Quotes by Donald Hall

"Everything important always begins from something trivial."

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

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