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Friends die, friends become d...

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.

Donald Hall 44 quotes

As I look at the barn in my n...

As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

Donald Hall 44 quotes

It is sensible of me to be aw...

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

Donald Hall 44 quotes

A fellowship to Oxford acquai...

A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

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Many years, I would publish f...

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.

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It used to be that phrases an...

It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

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I have seen so many poets who...

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

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When I was a child, I loved o...

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

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When it comes to poetry, I th...

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

Donald Hall 44 quotes

One Oxford poet confessed to ...

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

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Of course newspaper sportswri...

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

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If the poet wants to be a poe...

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.

Donald Hall 44 quotes

I see no reason to spend your...

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

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I want to sleep like the bird...

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

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We made in those days tiny id...

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

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I don't know where a poem com...

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

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Some of us are darkness lover...

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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The form of free verse is as ...

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

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Every now and then I meet som...

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!"

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For most baseball fans, maybe...

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....