Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

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

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

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.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.