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Between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision'

René Taupin

True influence consists in surpassing one's model not in reproducing it.

René Taupin

The pleasure of their [the Imagists'] poetry is not the satisfaction of discovering little by little, but of seizing at a single blow, in the fullest vitality, the image, a fusion of reality in words.

René Taupin

René Taupin

René Taupin

Born: 1905

Died: February 13, 1981 (aged 76)

Bio: René Taupin was a French translator, critic, and academic who lived most of his life in the United States and is best known for heading the Romance Languages department at Hunter College.

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