Ezra Pound

"I did not enter into silence, silence captured me."

                                             —Pound to Dominique de Roux, 1965

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and a major figure of the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his promotion of Imagism, a movement that derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. (Wikipedia)