Donald Hall Quote

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.

Poetry and ambition: essays, 1982-88 (ed. Univ of Michigan Pr, 1988)

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.

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.

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.

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.