Near a war is always not very near.
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.