You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

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

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.