Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

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

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

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

All are / naked, none is safe.

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.