"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."

-- Ezra Pound

#Death Quotes #Men Quotes #Promise Quotes

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“Success is the sum of details.”
“Rock concerts are the churches of today.”
“I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.”
“I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.”
“The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

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