Donald Hall : (5)

" I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer. " - Donald Hall

" I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life. " - Donald Hall

" I’d heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it. " - Donald Hall

" On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu – meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream. " - Donald Hall

" 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