Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?

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

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

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