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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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Go to Quote / Comment
Artists broken against her, Astray, lost in the villages,... Go to Quote / Comment
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. Go to Quote / Comment
There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.'' Go to Quote / Comment
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. Go to Quote / Comment