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?

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

There is no there there.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.