Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
