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

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

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

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.