“Image…that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

—  Ezra Pound

"Poetry: A Few Don'ts by an Imagist", Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (March 1913)

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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

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