It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
You have to know what you want to get it.
I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.