
Above Evergreen on the approach to Squaw Pass.
Baseball Figures of Speech--from Ken Burns' Baseball series:
On Ty Cobb's angry intensity: He would climb a mountain to punch an echo.
It was said about the famous Philadelphia A's pitcher Lefty Grove, "He could throw a lambchop past a wolf."
Satchel Paige on Cool Papa Bell--He's so fast he can turn off the light, hop in bed, and pull up the covers before the light goes out.
Yogi Berra, after flunking a high school test…
Q. Don't you know anything?
A. I don't even suspect anything.
We see little ordinarily of what is around us. A good poem restores our sight and our hearing. That is, indeed, one of the achievements of poetry. --Charles Simic via http://www.terrain.org/interview/22/
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