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

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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