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

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

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

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.