Donald Hall Quotes

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.