The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Pound was clever independent-minded conceited and unpopular. Reception
Opinion varies about the nature of Pound's writing style. The Malatesta Cantos (Cantos VIII IX X and XI of a Long Poem) appeared in The Criterion in July 1923 and two further cantos were publiEzra Poundd in the transatlantic review in January 1924.

He introduces them to wealthy women. He was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. His political views ensure that his work remains controversial; in 1933 Time magazine called him "a cat that walks by himself tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children.