Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Donald HallI see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Donald HallVirtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.
Donald HallGreat literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.
Donald Hall