“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.”

—  Archibald Macleish

Moonlighting on Yale Field, Riders on Earth (1978)

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American poet and Librarian of Congress 1892–1982

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