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
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.
Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.
To grow old is to lose everything.
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.