Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

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

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

To grow old is to lose everything.

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.

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.