So "'The Immoral Proposition."
If you never do anything for anyone else
you are spared the tragedy of human relationships.
If quietly and like another time there
is the passage of an unexpected thing--
to look at it is more than it was.
God knows nothing is competent nothing is all there is.
The unsure egoist is not good for himself."
It goes in a circle.
Again, thinking of other men who've had this very clear use
for me.
Williams makes the point at some point that the--
he says the poet thinks with his poem.
In that lies his thought.
And that in itself is the profundity.
So the poetry became, for me, a way of articulating senses
of feeling or senses of dilemma or senses
of realization or recognition, that other means
of saying things are of expressing
things and all the complexity of that possibility--
the writing in this fashion gave me
an access to terms of feeling that I otherwise, I
feel, couldn't get to.
Here's another, actually, that's almost at that same time, which
again is this sense of trying to locate something
that was a frustrating sense of impotence, of being blocked.
John is simply any friend.
And seeing how one might get out of it.