I don’t like provocation because I take no pleasure in provoking people. You have to enjoy provocation to do it, and I don’t. I always approach situations with curiosity, and sometimes my curiosity might make me audacious. But the motivation for my curiosity is never the desire to provoke.
“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”
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