Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

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

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

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

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

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