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

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

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

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

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.