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Quotation by Ezra Pound

A heroic figure ... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet, critic. Letter, 1914, to the father of Pound's bride-to-be, Dorothy Shakespear, explaining his reasons for not wanting a church wedding. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 2, ch. 13 (1988).
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