If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
Donald HallIf 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 HallI want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
Donald Hall