“I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak.
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”

—  Ezra Pound , The Cantos

Canto CXX (the concluding Canto of the 1975 edition of The Cantos')
The Cantos

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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

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