“ Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ”
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
~ A. R. Ammons
In nature there are few sharp lines.
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
