“It is always dangerous to define yourself, as [Ezra] Pound increasingly did, in terms of your beliefs: I am Catholic; I am an anarchist; I am a fan of the flat earth. An attack on them is an attack on you, and leads to war. You can fight for a cause and make it come about, but you can never make an idea come true like a wish, for its truth is — thank heavens — out of our hands.”
— William H. Gass, “Ezra Pound,” from Finding a Form
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