Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!"
Donald HallYou know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.
Donald HallI wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
Donald HallIf our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
Donald Hall