It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

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

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

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

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

All are / naked, none is safe.