"To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it"

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Source : Donald Hall (1988). “Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988”

Donald Hall

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.”
“Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.”
“I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.”
“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
“To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.”
“I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.”
“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.”
“I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.”

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