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

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

Words have the power to open up newer realities, rarefy tour performance, inspire fresh possibilities and free humanity.

You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.

Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.

Most of the stuff I do is garbage.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.