Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.

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

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.