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

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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."

Ezra Pound's Quotations

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Achievement	Actually	Appraise	Confuses
Dead	Difficult	Disentangle	Interruption
Merit	Performed	Promise	Save
Sentimentalizing	Suddenly	Things	Tragedy
Work	Youth

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