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

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

Romance is everything.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.