…it has taken me a long time to take for granted as a universal and irremediable human condition. Pound never reached that point. W. Lewis: “I write from the standpoint of genius.” E.P. [Ezra Pound]: “I write for those who are top flight inventors and creators in the arts.” T.S. Eliot: “I croon for those who are living and partly living a song of their remote but better selves.: Therefore Lewis and Pound are ignored and Eliot is widely misunderstood. But widely. Old Possum (Eliot) was the shrewder man. And I dislike him for his virtues.