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• Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

  Donald Hall

  Important, Done, Found

• To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.

  Donald Hall

  Years, Ignorant, Grandfather

  Donald Hall (2015). “The Selected Poems of Donald Hall”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt