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“Humanity’s True Heaven”

 

Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.

 

Ezra Pound translates Cavalcanti:

“You seem humility’s true heaven.”

(Sonnet IV)

And when the humanity – the Jen of Confucius, so loved by Pound – comes through then you seem to be humanity’s true heaven.

And not just seem –

“Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘seems.’”

(Hamlet I.ii.76)

The Radiance, the Emanation, of Jen is Heaven, truly Heaven.

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