An American ex-patriate poet known for advancing "imagism" in his poetry; a technique developed from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry that stresses economy, clarity and economy of language.
The age demanded an image
Of its accelerated grimace,
Something for the modern stage,
Not, at any rate, an Attic grace;
Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries
Of the inward gaze;
Better mendacities
Than the classics in paraphrase!
The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster,
Made with no loss of time,
A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster
Or the "sculpture" of rhyme.
- Excerpt from "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" -
"I don't feel like I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed help.
I did what I felt was right."- Wesley Autrey quotation selected by the artist -
