“If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him”

— Ezra Pound, The Cantos

Canto XIII
The Cantos
Context: 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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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

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