No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.

Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:
Don't kick against the pricks,
Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game
And died, there's nothing in it.

Ezra Pound

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