To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. – Lawrence Clark Powell
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. – Jim Brown
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison
