This essay explores the lives and works of three modernist poets: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and E.E. Cummings. It correlates their literary work with the emergence of modernist art and with the ensuing literary movements and aesthetic theories. Ezra Pound’s role in the creation of modernist poetry was crucial. It was based on an image, a complex instant of time that can be viewed as a painter’s motif. The use of collage, fractioning, symbols and others are all features derived of painters. Painters and poets belonged to a larger group and movements like Impressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism applied both to poets and painters, reciprocally lending new powers to one another. As well as resembling one, poems tried to interpret existing works of art as it can be seen in the use of ekphrasis in the works of William Carlos Williams. This interpretation of works of art might be also seen as a homage to a tradition feat. Visual art and poetry merged in the works of E.E. Cummings where its composition in short lines, lack of capitalizing, use of free verse, the extended spacing of words and punctuation best showcase the novelties in the visual arts.