The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future. - Garrison Keillor

He (coach) looks for size, speed being rare among Norwegians and Germans, and for malleability or what he calls attitude.

First of all, most poems aren’t memorable; in fact, they make no impression at all. Sorry, but it’s true. There are brave blurbs on the back cover (“writes with a lyrical luminosity that reconceptualizes experience with cognitive beauty”) but you open up the goods and they’re like condoms on the beach, evidence that somebody was here once and had an experience but not of great interest to the passerby.

The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years — but the dead move in with us to stay.