Donald Hall
"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."
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"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."
"النثر لا يعتمد على الصوت بهذا القدر. أما بيت الشعر، بانكسار سطره – فالصوت بالنسبة لي هو المدخل إلى الشعر. وإحساسي بالصوت، أو قدرتي على التحكم فيه، قد خبا أو تضاءل."
Donald Hall
"Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious."
"كل ظهيرة، أوصد باب غرفتي لأكتب: كان الشعر سراً خطيراً، شريراً ولذيذاً."
Donald Hall
"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."
"أما الشعر، فأظن أن كثرة من يحاولون كتابته هي على الأرجح نتيجة أو رد فعل على التكنولوجيا."
Donald Hall
"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."
"تلقيت تعليمي في هارفارد بصحبة كوكبة من الشعراء، وكان ذلك نادرًا للغاية. لقد أصدروا الكثير من الدواوين، إذ كان هناك حماسٌ عارمٌ بعد الحرب، تجسّد في الشعر."
Donald Hall
"Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language."
"الشعر يقدم أعمالاً فنية آسرة الجمال، كلوحاتٍ هي ثاني فنوني المحببة، لكنه أيضاً يمنحنا أعمالاً فنية تجسد العاطفة، وتغدو بمثابة مدرسةٍ للإحساس. إنها تعلمنا كيف نشعر، وتفعل ذلك بجمال لغتها الباتع."
Donald Hall
"In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings."
"لقد شهدتُ في حياتي تزايدًا هائلاً"
Donald Hall
"Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems."
"الشعر هو ما مارسته طوال حياتي. وكل أمر جلل في حياتي وجد سبيله إلى قصائدي."
Donald Hall
"Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye."
"لطالما كان الصوت بوابتي إلى الشعر، لكنه في البدء كان يُتخيل عبر العين."
Donald Hall
"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."
"لطالما شعرت أن الشعر مثير للشهوة بشكل خاص، أكثر من النثر... أقول إنك لا تقرأ القصائد بعينيك ولا بأذنيك، بل بفمك. تتذوقها."
Donald Hall
"I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it."
"أَمْقُتُ تَبْخِيسَ الشِّعْرِ الَّذِي يَحْدُثُ فِي صُفُوفِ الْكِتَابَةِ الْإِبْدَاعِيَّةِ. يُحَدِّدُ الْمُعَلِّمُونَ تَمَارِينَ لِاسْتِثَارَةِ الْمَوْضُوعِ: اكْتُبْ قَصِيدَةً عَنْ مَنْظَرٍ طَبِيعِيٍّ خَيَالِيٍّ يَسْكُنُهُ أُنَاسٌ حَقِيقِيُّونَ. اكْتُبْ عَنْ مَكَانٍ عَاشَ فِيهِ وَالِدَاكَ قَبْلَ وِلَادَتِكَ. لَدَيْنَا مَا يَكْفِي مِنَ الشِّعْرِ الرَّدِيءِ دُونَ الْحَاجَةِ إِلَى تَشْجِيعِ الْمَزِيدِ مِنْهُ."
Donald Hall
"After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry."
"بعد بضع سنوات في الثانوية الحكومية، انتقلت إلى إكستر – ذلك التجمع الجنوني للذكور المراهقين في البرية، والذين ادعى جميعهم كراهية الشعر."
Donald Hall
"As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me."
"كلما تقدم بي العمر، وانهار بي السبعون، ثم لاحت لي جروف الثمانين، فاصطدمت بالخامسة والثمانين، هجرتني الشاعرية."
Donald Hall
"I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them."
"لقد كتبتُ بعض الشعر وكتابين نثريين عن البيسبول، ولكن لو كنتُ رجلاً ثرياً، لربما لم أكن لأكتب الكثير من مقالات المجلات التي اضطررتُ إليها. غير أن حاجتي لكتابة مقالات المجلات لأعيل نفسي، دفعتني للبحث عما أهتم به وأرغب في الكتابة عنه، وبالتأكيد كان البيسبول أحد هذه الأمور."
Donald Hall
"Everything important always begins from something trivial."
"كل عظيم يبدأ من تافه."
Donald Hall
"Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel."
"ليس كل ما في الشيخوخة كئيباً. لم أمشِ في مطار منذ سنوات، والكراسي المتحركة هي خير وسيلة للسفر."
Donald Hall
"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."
Donald Hall
"Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems."
Donald Hall
"I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year."
Donald Hall
"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."
Donald Hall
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