One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
The heart that gives, gathers.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.