Make It New
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"Make it new" is the modernist credo of the poet Ezra Pound.
It is paradigmatic of modernism's approach towards the obsolete.
It is from Pound’s 1928 translation of the Great Learning, a central Confucian text
- In letters of gold on T’ang’s bathtub:
- AS THE SUN MAKES IT NEW
- DAY BY DAY MAKE IT NEW
- YET AGAIN MAKE IT NEW.
- It is said in the K’ang Proclamation
- He is risen, renewing the people.
- The Odes say:
- Although Chou was an ancient kingdom
- The celestial destiny
- Came again down on it NEW
Make it New! It is also the title of a 1934 essay collection which includes essays about medieval troubadours, Elizabethan classicists, translators of Greek and 19th century French poets.
See also
- The modernist manifesto Ornament and crime (1908).
- Motto
- Great Learning
- Neophilia
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