René Taupin (1905 – 13 February 1981) was a French translator, critic, and academic who lived most of his life in the United States and is best known for heading the Romance Languages department at Hunter College.
Between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision'
The pleasure of their (the Imagist poetry is not the satisfaction of discovering little by little , but of seizing at a single blow, in the fullest vitality, the image, a fusion of reality in words.
True influence consists in surpassing one's model not in reproducing it.