I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.