[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.