But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

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?

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.