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> [Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-mathews/pound-was-silly-bumptious-extravagantly-generous-annoying/)

T.S. Mathews

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## More by T.S. Mathews

> [Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-mathews/pound-was-silly-bumptious-extravagantly-generous-annoying/)

T.S. Mathews

> [Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-mathews/communication-is-something-so-simple-and-difficult-that-we-can-never/)

T.S. Mathews

> [The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-mathews/the-press-is-not-our-daily-bread-but-our-daily-sugar-pill/)

T.S. Mathews

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