“poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.”
“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”
“I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.”
“Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering…and the accepting.”
“He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.”
“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”