{"author":"Donald Hall","author_id":"Donald+Hall","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["parents","poetry","me "],"id":31576,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"Worship is not love.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["love","worship"],"id":32051,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["life","my life","young "],"id":37455,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["one-day","remember"],"id":40057,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"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.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["hope","future","good "],"id":67799,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["eyes","you","mouth "],"id":114473,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["war","excitement","rare "],"id":122647,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["age","old age","way "],"id":136338,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, and old people are a separate form of life. They have green skin, with two heads that sprout antennae. They can be pleasant, they can be annoying--in the supermarket, these old ladies won't get out of my way--but most important they are permanently other. When we turn eighty, we understand that we are extraterrestrial. If we forget for a moment that we are old, we are reminded when we try to stand up, or when we encounter someone young, who appears to observe green skin, extra heads, and protuberances.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["aging","aliens","antiquity","extraterrestrials","old-age","other"],"id":137774,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"},{"text":"As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.","author":"Donald Hall","tags":["me","ahead","older "],"id":140932,"author_id":"Donald+Hall"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}