People Don't Quote WCW Enough

Either, we have been taught to think, the mind moves in a logical sequence to a definite end which is its goal, or it will embrace movement without goal other than movement itself for an end and hail "transition" only as supreme.

Take your choice, both resorts are an improper description of the mind in fullest play.

This from a reprint of William Carlos Williams on Stien in CONTEXT (go Curt!). Of course, in the early 20th this was a feeling. Expressed by Woolf and nearly everybody. Now it's scientific fact. Which, backs up WCW's harangue against the idea that poetry should believe in and play by the rules of Reason, which at the time, said, Bah! (Yes, there's a Gender Writ Large thing going on here.)

The essay is a really cranky, fun read. Indulge.