I don’t want to create symbols. I avoid them as much as possible. But the audience seems to see a profusion of them.
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I don’t want to create symbols. I avoid them as much as possible. But the audience seems to see a profusion of them.
“If my praise her grace effaces,
Then ’tis not my heart that showeth,
But the skilless tongue that soweth
Words unworthy of her graces.
Tongue, that hath me so betrayed,
Were my heart but here displayed,
Then were sung her fitting praises.”
Ezra Pound | “Canzon: To Be Sung Beneath a Window”