In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.
Donald HallWords seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
Donald HallBaseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.
Donald HallI want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
Donald Hall