Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose On Poetry Quotes
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.