"I am trying to describe the foreigness, the outsideness, as a kind of metaphor for the sense I have of the process that leads to a poem, which again is outside, when made, and is akin to translation, a word which in its parts holds the meaning of the word ‘metaphor’, the bringing over. This is here a problem of describing the process of inclusions, which as a man’s work extends, enlarges and must take in both earth and sky. The heat I’m after is not simply the personal heat of the meeting, the recognition, but a heat and a passion which are of the nature of existence itself. The personal, yes, but then the translation of the personal to correspond with larger and larger elements, images of earth, is a process of inclusion – a growth of sensibility"
-Blaser, The Fire