All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

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

Never confuse movement with action.