145 Quotes by Donald Hall

Chipmunks jump, andgreensnakes slither.Rather burst thannot be with her.Bluebirds fight, butbears are stronger.We've got fifty years or longer.Hoptoads hop, buthogs are fatter.Nothing else butUs can matter.

In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.

My great-great-grandparents owned the back pew and they were among those who built the structure back in the 1800s,

It is about her death, but it is also about our life together, we were married 23 wonderful years,

I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago.

I think I'm probably finished writing about it now,

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs, yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers: O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.