Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
Donald Hall
Your presence in this house ...
Quotes from the same author
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.
Donald Hall
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
Donald Hall
Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.
Donald Hall
