A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

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

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

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

You have to know what you want to get it.