“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.”
Canto CXX (the concluding Canto of the 1975 edition of The Cantos')
The Cantos
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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972Related quotes
Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) Continental and later British Army general during the American Revolutionary War
Unverified, but reportedly said by Arnold on his deathbed in 1801, requesting to wear the uniform of the Colonial Army from before his defection to the British, as quoted in The Picturesque Hudson http://www.kellscraft.com/PicturesqueHudson/PicturesqueHudson08.html (1915) by Clifton Johnson
“Let them do what I have done.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877) American businessman, philanthropist, and tycoon
Often attributed, but without a contemporary source, as a remark on being asked to contribute to charity for the poor. See for example Commodore (2009) by Edward J. Renehan
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts! For therein, and in nothing else, lies goodness and love of humankind.
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Source: How to Win Friends & Influence People
“But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.”
Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
