“I went to the woods” at Walden Pond, Thoreau never writes in his spiritual classic, “to write.”
Yet that half-truth is as much the plain fact of the matter as the one so well remembered–for many of us, indeed, by heart. (For those without familiarity or in need of a jog this morning, click here for the sidebar.)
Is not part of a writer’s motive (at least subconsciously) for most experience to gather material for writing? You can answer this; I can only ask.
Ours are both, I take it,
Plain statements of fact.
Let them each be? Or not?
To which side lean, more thought.
Instead of any settlement, probably, I would prefer to let it be.