"The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Read more at http://www.ranker.com/list/a-list-of-famous-ezra-pound-quotes/reference#FxdJMUMU0tZCaF1A.99
The words "vortex," and "cluster," already are painting a picture in my head. "Fused ideas," are making me think of ideas put together, almost bonded together. This quote is totally perfect for him. I mean he was an imagist who painted pictures using words for his readers. Imagists take ideas and pictures and describe them, using words. They write poems in which using every detail of what they are descibing. The paint you pictures in your head t "imagine" what they are talking about. Every little detail counts, and you need to see what they see right down to the itty bitty minor details.
Before Sleep: ..."You were gone up as a rocket,
Bending your passages from right to left and from left to right
In the flat projection of a spiral."
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501905-Before_Sleep-by-Ezra_Pound
The Bathtub: ..."As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady."
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501923-The_Bath-Tub-by-Ezra_Pound
Nicotine: ..."As were Godiva's coming fated
And all the April's blush belated
Were lain before her, carpeting
The stones of Coventry with spring"
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501919-Nicotine-by-Ezra_Pound
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