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 only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left. Go to Quote / Comment
The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. Go to Quote / Comment
It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom... Go to Quote / Comment
no picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly... Go to Quote / Comment
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry.... If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the art... Go to Quote / Comment