[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.