Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

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

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.

I care a heck of a lot more about America than I do about any political party.

Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue. Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.