'In writing poems, the author must use his image because
he sees and feels it, not because he thinks he can use it to back
up some creed or some system of economics.'
                                    Gaudier-Brzeska, p.99

There is nothing to prevent the human dynamics of the creed or the
system of economics being seen and felt. The bank of Siena (Cantos
XLII-XLIV) captured Pound's imagination. So did the correspondence of
Jefferson and Adams, and the philosophy of Confucius. What is fatal to
poetry is the intrusion (as in The Princess or the Dynasts) of
uncorrelated formulae, apprehended at the level of formula, clung to by
a portion of the authors mind in satisfaction of some emotional
need.--Hugh Kenner, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, pps.287-88.