Donald Hall Quotes

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Donald Hall

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Success
  • Pride

• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Path
  • Poverty

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Family
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Personality
  • Lose
  • Rights

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • Knows
  • Limits
  • Prepared

• I always sort of liked Mesa/Boogies, but I wasn't sure if they were cool or not cool.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Cool

• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Life
  • Home
  • Friends

• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Lord
  • Privileged

• Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Life
  • Important
  • Done