You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

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

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.