Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

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 inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business