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: > >Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel. > >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. > >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. > >Thanks, Tom White, Odessa, Texas. >