At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of. — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
