If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the … - Donald Hall

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There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.

Donald Hall

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

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We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

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Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

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If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

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Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

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Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

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