The age demanded an image
Of its accelerated grimace,
Something for the modern stage,
Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.


Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) 'E. P. Ode…' pt. 2

Ezra Pound Quotes

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.