It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.
Chess is a cold bath for the mind
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.
If you love language, it will love you back.
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.