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

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

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

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

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.

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