Saturday May 4, 9:05 P.M.


 

I read that T.S. Eliot believed that a poet's emotions should be kept
out of a poem. The words he writes should evoke only the reader's
feelings. Like, writing about the smell of steak in an apartment
hallway, or something like that. It seems like so many good authors
lived in a really strikingly beautiful or ugly place in their youth
that they could use as a landscape or even a subject. What can I write
about...shopping centers & swimming pools? Yeah, ha. Well...

I was reading the transcripts of Nixon's tapes re: Watergate. For a
Quaker, he sure swears a lot.