There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his ... - Ezra Pound

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I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.

Ezra Pound

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.

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