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The modern verse movement in the English language came into being largely through the pioneering efforts of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Of the first man I have little to say: he was a good man, a talented man, a spiritually sensitive man, but in this effort he was misguided, and would have done better for the world if he had never gotten associated with Pound, who was a bad influence on him.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 72