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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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. Go to Quote / Comment
I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it;... Go to Quote / Comment
AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? Go to Quote / Comment
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Go to Quote / Comment
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Go to Quote / Comment