The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. (Ezra Pound)

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

Ezra Pound

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