When I see young men doing so wonderfully well in athletics, I don't feel angry at them. I feel jealous of them. I wish that some ...of my boys in writing would do the same thing.... You must have form--performance. The thing itself is indescribable, but it is felt like athletic form. To have form, feel form in sports--and by analogy feel form in verse. One works and waits for form in both. As I said, the person who spends his time criticizing the play around him will never write poetry. He will write criticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics--a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power-...-the women's programs are just as doomed as the men's are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that's the kind of success for women's sports that we want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »