Ezra Pound - The Cantos (1954)

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Pride, jealousy and possessiveness
3 pains of hell

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The blossoms of the apricot
blow from the east to the west,
And I have tried to keep them from falling.

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How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity
[...]
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity

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"You damn sadist!" said mr. cummings,
"you try to make people think."

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With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
[...]
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
[...]
no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly

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To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
This is not vanity.
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered...

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If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have not order within him
His family will not act with due order;
And if the prince have not order within him
He can not put order in his dominions.

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But the beauty is not the madness
Tho' my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.

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Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument

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And even I can remember
A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,
I mean, for things they didn't know,
But that time seems to be passing.

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A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

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