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Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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