I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

You can’t possibly be afraid of trees.

I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond, ' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

My teammates, they keep you focused.