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As many have probably already told you, it's in the Pisan Cantos.
Tom White wrote:
>Can anyone help me on this? A line in French sticks in my head that
>goes like this:
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>Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel.
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>I thought it might be Pound but can't find it using Terrell's Index
>and that idlest of all approaches, paging through the Cantos.
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>I know Pound said, "I have tried to write Paradise" in Canto CXX,
>emphasis apparently on the "tried," but that's as close as I can get,
>along with, "To build the city of Dioce, whose terraces are the color
>of stars." Dioce as a kind of paradisal place mentioned several times
>elsewhere.
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>Thanks, Tom White, Odessa, Texas.
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