“The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”

—  Ezra Pound , book ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 33

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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

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