"With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting [...] with usura hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall [...] no picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly"
— Ezra Pound

January 1, 1970

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Canto XLV — Note: Regarding usura, in 1972 Pound wrote in the foreword to "Selected Prose, 1909-1965": "re USURY: I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause. The cause is AVARICE."