This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis 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.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon.