I wonder if Robert Kent is even now preparing "evidence" of the
harassment of independent librarians in London under Ken
Livingstone, and joining poetry discussion lists in order to
demonstrate his theory that Ezra Pound warned us all about him
back in the 1940s.
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On 4 May 00, at 22:22, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> The quotation, "I would die for my country but I could never let my
> country die for me," sounds similar to some lines written by Salvador
> Espriu, a Catalan poet:
>
> Sometimes it is necessary and unavoidable
> That one man should die for a people.
> But never should all the people die
> For just one man.
>
> I don't have an original source for this translation. It was cited in
> Robert Quirk's biography, "Fidel Castro," (New York, London: W.W.
> Norton, 1993), p. 611.
>
> Robert Kent
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