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 HallIf work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
Donald HallBaseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.
Donald Hall