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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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Go to Quote / Comment
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Go to Quote / Comment
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. Go to Quote / Comment
Duccio came not by usura nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin' not by usura... Go to Quote / Comment
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