René Taupin

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.

Quotes

 * True influence consists in surpassing one's model not in reproducing it.
 * L'Influence du symbolism francais sur la poesie Americaine(de 1910 a 1920), Champion, Paris 1929 trans William Pratt and Anne Rich AMS, New York 1985 ISBN 9780404615796


 * 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.
 * L'Influence du symbolism francais sur la poesie Americaine(de 1910 a 1920), Champion, Paris 1929 trans William Pratt and Anne Rich AMS, New York 1985 ISBN 9780404615796


 * Between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision'
 * L'Influence du symbolism francais sur la poesie Americaine(de 1910 a 1920), Champion, Paris 1929 trans William Pratt and Anne Rich AMS, New York 1985 ISBN 9780404615796