Both Eliot and Pound condense; their best verse is weighted--Pound's, with sensual experience primarily, and Eliot's with beliefs.... Where the mind's life is concerned the senses produce images, and beliefs produce dramatic cries. The condensation is important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticize...d thing and to make it one's own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »