“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”

On Ezra Pound, as quoted in The New Republic (11 November 1936)

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“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”

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