
You are after those words you can own and ways of putting them in
phrases and lines that are yours by right of obsessive musical deed. You
are trying to find and develop a way of writing that will be yours and
will, as Stafford puts it, generate things to say. Your triggering
subjects are those that ignite your need for words. When you are honest,
to your feelings, that triggering town chooses you. Your words used
your way will generate your meanings. Your obsessions lead you to your
vocabulary. Your way of writing locates, even creates, your inner life.
The relation of you to your language gains power. The relation of you to
the triggering subject weakens.