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

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

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

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.