Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate US poet and critic who was a major figure in the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language.
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement. Go to Quote / Comment
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. Go to Quote / Comment
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Go to Quote / Comment
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. Go to Quote / Comment
Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. Go to Quote / Comment