Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
The power of the visible is the invisible.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.