Ezra Pound Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972
Birthday: October 30
Death: November 1
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, 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.
source: "Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".
topic: Letting Go, Country, Children, Tuberculosis, Resigned, Tarts, Good Doctors
