The Blank Page And The Poet's Mission

The blank sheet of paper is always a new beginning, a chance to create the world again, repudiate memory, right all wrongs, dethrone Intellect and dunk him three times in the Lake of the Heart till he laughs, write the world the way you know it ought to be so that when you lift your pen and your face, it really will be different, and even create a Golden Scripture that will transform everyone who sees it and put us finally all on the same page forever. And the amazing thing is that you actually attain all that sometimes, and you know when you've done it, it's not just some kind of delusion, it's a genuine change of the metaphysical and molecular state of everything. But then cooling or something begins to set in, it's not the same as it was, and you realize you're gonna have to do it again.