The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.