The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

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.