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So "'The Immoral Proposition."

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If you never do
anything for anyone else

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you are spared the tragedy
of human relationships.

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If quietly and like
another time there

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is the passage of an
unexpected thing--

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to look at it is
more than it was.

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God knows nothing is competent
nothing is all there is.

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The unsure egoist is
not good for himself."

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It goes in a circle.

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Again, thinking of other men
who've had this very clear use

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for me.

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Williams makes the point
at some point that the--

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he says the poet
thinks with his poem.

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In that lies his thought.

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And that in itself
is the profundity.

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So the poetry became, for me,
a way of articulating senses

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of feeling or senses
of dilemma or senses

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of realization or
recognition, that other means

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of saying things
are of expressing

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things and all the complexity
of that possibility--

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the writing in this
fashion gave me

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an access to terms of
feeling that I otherwise, I

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feel, couldn't get to.

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Here's another, actually, that's
almost at that same time, which

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again is this sense of
trying to locate something

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that was a frustrating sense
of impotence, of being blocked.

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John is simply any friend.

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And seeing how one
might get out of it.