Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

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

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.