he prefers a clear, active, intense confusion to any ‘wise passiveness,” to any calm and clouded two-sidedness–whenever he sees that there is something to be said for both sides, he speaks up for the underdog, hard, so that his work is a Permanent Revolution of an anarchist emotional kind, and he himself spins willingly on the wheel of things.
This quote about poet Dr. William Carlos Williams, really stands wonderfully well alone, particularly as a guide for one’s political passions in a sense not crudely narrowed into political contests, selecting the better contestant in the ever more dreary game show curtain choked realm of everyday politics, nor exclusively for the emotionally pulling movements of the day, for certain legislation of the like….