145 Quotes by Donald Hall

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry.

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.