Donald Hall Quotes

But the form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. An ambitious project—but sensible, I think. … If 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.

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.