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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.

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet, critic. Gaudier-Brzeska: a Memoir, ch. 13 (1916).

Of the French sculptor (and Vorticist) Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, killed in action in France, 1915.

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