No one knows, at sight a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me: Don't kick against the pricks, Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game And died, there's nothing in it.

Ezra Pound
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  1. Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

  2. It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

  3. The Garden En robe de parade. - SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-mealof a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble...

  4. L'artGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

  5. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

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