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Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old, endures the inevitable loss of ambition’s fulfillment.

Essays, like poems and stories and novels, marry heaven and hell. Contradiction is the cellular structure of life. Sometimes north dominates, sometimes south – but if the essay doesn’t include contraries, however small they be, the essay fails.

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.

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

I don’t know where a poem comes from until after I’ve lived with it a long time. I’ve a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

When we put words together – adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object – we start to talk to each other.

It’s almost relaxing to know I’ll die fairly soon, as it’s a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

But Blake’s voices returned to dictate revisions.

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

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

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

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

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

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

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.

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like “gasp” and “cry.” Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

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.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.

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

To grow old is to lose everything.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible – and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

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

Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don’t let them go, don’t publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: “Things will get better! You won’t always feel so depressed! Cheer up!”

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

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

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.

These days most old people die in profit-making expiration dormitories. Their loving sons and daughters are busy and don’t want to forgo the routine of their lives.

Essays After Eighty Quotes

It is best to believe the praiser and dismiss the praise.

Essays After Eighty Quotes

It sounds like a lot of work for my mother, but cooking was almost all she did. In suburban Connecticut, middle-class women were required to stay at home and do nothing but cook and iron. Housecleaning was for immigrants.

Essays After Eighty Quotes

Otherwise we attend to our poets when they are alive—to hear them, to praise them, to despise them, to use them. Death usually removes them. I expect my immortality to expire six minutes after my funeral. Literature is a zero-sum game.

Essays After Eighty Quotes

I watch a white landscape that turns pale green, dark green, yellow and red, brown under bare branches, until snow falls again.

Essays After Eighty Quotes

One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.

One Day Quotes Remember Quotes

And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer.

As I read my poems aloud, I paid still more attention to sound in my writing. One morning as I revised, I set down a word that I knew was not right, and I heard myself think: But I can say it so that it’s right. Immediately, I knew that I had understood one of the hazards of reading aloud. Performance can paper over bad writing, or substitute for the best language. Performance is a problem, and most performance poets or slammers are actors or standup comedians and not poets; we never hear a line break and seldom a new metaphor. There are other problems with the popularity of the poetry reading, but largely the reading has been good for poetry because poets watch their own poems come back to them on the faces of listeners. One addresses not only the Muse but actual people.

Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry Quotes

Essays, like poems and stories and novels, marry heaven and hell. Contradiction is the cellular structure of life. Sometimes north dominates, sometimes south—but if the essay doesn’t include contraries, however small they be, the essay fails.

Essays After Eighty Quotes

The tree is burning on the autumn noonThat builds each year the leaf and bark again.Though frost will strip it raw and barren soon,The rounding season will restore and mend.Yet people are not mended, but go on,Accumulating memory and love.And so the wood we used to know is gone,Because the years have taught us that we move.We have moved on, the Tamburlaines of then,To different Asias of our plundering.And though we sorrow not to know againA land or face we loved, yet we are king.The young are never robbed of innocenceBut given gold of love and memory.We live in wealth whose bounds exceed our sense,And when we die are full of memory.-from "September Ode

Old and New Poems Quotes

In newspapers and magazines I read about what’s happening. Apparently Facebook exists to extinguish friendship. E-mail and texting destroy the post office. eBay replaces garage sales. Amazon eviscerates bookstores. Technology speeds, then doubles its speed, then doubles it again. Art takes naps.

Essays After Eighty Quotes

Death of a part is agony- from "The Red Branch

Old and New Poems Quotes

When a long-desiredbaby is born, whatjoy! More happinessthan we find in sex,more than we take insuccess, revenge, orwealth. But should the sameinfant die, would youmeasure the horroron the same rule? Griefweighs down the seesaw,joy cannot budget it.

Old and New Poems Quotes

Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.

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