You're beautiful, like a May fly.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.