Ezra Pound Quotes
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Citations
Pound, Ezra. "A Retrospect." Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, edited by T. S. Eliot, New Directions, 1954, p. 12.
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).