Richard Blevins letter to Don Byrd, 1st of 2 pages, October 24, 1977. From the Don Byrd Archive.

“Just as our dreaming connects sleep and wakefulness, any conscious perception must link things with emotions and ideas?

Because things, like emotions or ideas, are perceived to be, they enter our poems —as into a field of vision— without primacy. One perception, while it may prove more apt or timely, is no better than any other: until the poet relates Everything to the poem in him.”