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Breathing Experience into Words |
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn. Your poetry issues of its own accord when you and the object have become one. . . . * "Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. " I've been talking so much about self, self, self in the chapters on voice. What if that's all wrong: incorrect; immoral. I don't think it is, but since what I am seeking in this section of the book is a central mystery-life or power or magic in words -- there is probably more than one path to it. I pursue now another approach, another line of attack, a different set of terms.
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