napowrimojo April 25 - daybookentry

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day book entry - shewing that our poetic troubles with the first person and the self go back to the Romantic era, where most all the roots of our contemporary poetry and poetic are.

It has ever been my opinion, that an excessive solicitude to avoid the use of our first personal pronoun more often has its source in conscious selfishness than in true self-oblivion. ... Yet I can with strictest truth assure my Readers that with a pleasure combined with a sense of weariness I see the nigh approach of that point of my labours, in which I can convey my opinions and the workings of my heart without reminding the Reader obtrusively of myself. ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Volume I, Essay iv

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The true eye of the earth is water. It is the gaze of the earth, its instrument for looking at time. In our eyes, it is water that dreams.

Paul Claudel, The BlackBird in the Rising Sun (1927)