Donald Graves Quotes & Sayings

Nothing I do will make death disappear
Or let your shudder or your knowledge go.
See the world whole, and see it clearly then,
A globe of dirt crusted with bones of men.
If we walk, we walk on graves.
- from Shudder — Donald Hall

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole. — Donald Hall

I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever. — Donald G. Mitchell

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist. — Michael Graves