Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Never confuse motions with action.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.