Let me listen to me and not to them.
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.