The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.