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Everything important always begins from something trivial.

- Donald Hall
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For better or worse, poetry is my life.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I don't have a computer. I never have had one.

When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

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Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.