Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

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

I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.