I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

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.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.