I discussed the panoply of translations of Benedict’s vow Conversatio Morum. I wonder if the intent of Coversatio Morum, is similar to the Confucian 茍日新，日日新，又日新. “If you renew yourself for one day, you can renew yourself daily, and continue to do so.” 1
Ezra Pound fixated on 日日新 2, which he turned into his famous mantra for modernism: “make it new!”
“Pound received the notion that ideas need to be constantly renewed from ‘Da xue’ [Confucius's 'Great Learning']. He first translated this notion as ‘renovate’ (TH, 12), then as ‘As the sun makes it new / Day by day make it new /Yet again make it new’ (Con, 36). Besides entitling his 1934 collection of essays Make It New, Pound frequently utilized this notion in his prose, such as Jefferson and/or Mussolini (112-13) and Guide to Kulchur (278), as well as The Cantos (LII/265, XCII/649, XCIV/662).” 3