Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it - don't cheat with it.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there.