Robert Frost

“A writer has to cultivate leisure. … People made much of Frost’s so-called laziness. It was a necessary laziness. It was the way his mind, his imagination, worked; he needed all that time, the spaciousness, the ease of getting from day to day. Poems could root in those spaces. In his case, they did.”

-- Robert Penn Warren

I have been trying this ‘laziness’ thing for close to thirty years now, and I am afraid that no poems have taken root yet. I will just have to keep trying, I guess.

[Source: Jay Parini, "Robert Frost: A Life"]

Thursday

AT&T's cable guy came today. Scared off the cats. I take the opportunity to wash off their plate, since it will probably be at least a couple of hours before they will feel safe here again.

Muhammad Ali

“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”

-- Muhammad Ali

"Muhammad Ali highlights" (Watch on YouTube)

[Source: Erika Krouse, "Contenders" a novel]