of gold which could be in the form of poetry or a piece of sculpture ... Exchanging his product for gold coin or paper notes does not value it into equivalents; it devalues it. It does that because once exchanged, the work is no longer unique; it has an equivalent expression. . . ." [--Meghnad Desai on Ezra Pound]
from Business Standard: Ezra Pound's world
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