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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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.
The future and strength of the race is for women to be able to have kids when they want them and to love and provide them with the tools they'll need to get through a hostile world. The image of the black woman bearing child upon child against her will is the real threat to the race.
Majority | Obligation | Policy | Public | Strength |
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.
Mistake |
When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon.