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

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.