I was the first to see him, for I grew out on the pasture slope, beyond the forest. He was a man, it seemed. . . - Denise Levertov

One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already. Showing anyone anything really amounts to removing the last thin film that prevents their seeing what they are looking at.

The wind, the birds, do not sound poorer but clearer,
recalling our agony, and the way we danced.

He quotes Ezra Pound saying in a 1948 manifesto, “You must understand what is happening”; and makes it clear the significant emphasis is on “what is happening,” the presentness, the process. “Most verse,” Duncan comments, “is something being made up to communicate a thing already present in the mind — or a lot of it is. And don’t pay the attention it shld to what the poet don’t know — and won’t [know] until the process speaks.