"If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best."

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Source : Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.155, University of Michigan Press

Donald Hall

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“Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.”

Source : Elizabeth Hoyt (2010). “The Ice Princess”, p.20, Hachette UK
“But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.”
“It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.”
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
“America's trying to do the best for its veterans.”
“Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.”
“The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.”
“When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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