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.
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True influence consists in surpassing one's model not in reproducing it.
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.
Between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision'