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

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

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

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

To grow old is to lose everything.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.