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— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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Ezra Pound·1885–1972
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helpless few in my country,O remnant enslaved! Artists broken against her,A-stray, lost in the villages,Mistrusted, spoken-against, Lovers of beauty, starved,Thwarted with systems,Helpless against the control; You who can not wear yourselves outBy persisting to successes,You who can only speak,Who can not steel yourselves into reiteration; You of the finer sense,Broken against false knowledge,You who can know at first hand,Hated, shut in, mistrusted:
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