I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.