The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the R...oman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there....... I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although I have come close on forty-nine, I have no child, I have nothing but a book,... Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously clos...e to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The language of the game is interesting. You can think of the pauses as caesuras, breaks between the lines. As a poem the game is ...composed of a number of short lines representing the pitches. The number of lines per batter form a stanza. Then there is a space. Sometimes the stanzas become breathless, rushing full paragraphs that build rapidly on each other until the poem-inning explodes. The poem lives for this sudden blossoming out of prosodic regularity. Should someone make a computer analysis of baseball prosody, I believe that they would come up with something close to the prosody of some great American lyrical epic, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, let's say, or Doc Williams's Patterson.... The game is definitely an epic ... formed of many lyrical moments dependent on silences for their effectiveness. An unfolding story punctuated by brief emotional swellings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In that open field If you do not come too close, if you do not come too close,... On a summer midnight, you can hear the music Of the weak pipe and the little drum And see them dancing around the bonfire The association of man and woman In daunsinge, signifying matrimonie....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your... spontaneous glance shall bring you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »