NCB
and Ezra Pound
formed Bel Esprit, a short-lived patronage scheme which Pound described as a sort of consumers' league to pay for quality rather than quantity in literature and the fine arts.
qtd. in
Sieburth, Richard. “Ezra Pound: Letters to Natalie Barney”. Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, Vol.