Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

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.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

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

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

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.

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.